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...last election. Indeed, he looked last fall as if he would be a caretaker President at the mercy of Capitol Hill. That did not prove to be the case. The Democrats turned out to have too many members for their own good, and their leadership splintered. They failed to muster enough votes to override presidential vetoes of key spending bills providing for more federal housing subsidies, more public service jobs, higher farm price supports, and environmental controls on strip mining. With his 25 years' experience in the House...
After nine months of dawdling and a misguided effort to put two outright foes of legal services on the board, President Ford finally named eleven directors who passed muster in the Senate, and last week they held their first meeting. Chaired by Cornell Law School Dean Roger Cramton, the group ranges from conservative to moderate liberal -though there are no women or representatives from poverty groups. Still, one legal-services activist pronounced himself "pleasantly surprised" after meeting the members. Said Melville Miller, director of Middlesex County Legal Services in New Jersey: "They seemed interested, open-minded and genuinely committed...
...beach, still in a fog. Drawn as close as possible to the rich-broad stereotype, she's as deficient in human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse sex to men she doesn't like and can't even muster the intelligence to see she's being murdered. When she learns the truth she airily trots back to the scoundrels anyway. We are left wondering which is the appropriate cliche--"Just like a woman?" Her rationale, not given, would seem to be on the order of "boys will be boys...
These two interest groups declared war on Harvard and the whole project. Both groups are well-organized. Edison has spent most of its time since the release of the environmental impact statement trying to discredit it, using all the muscle and "experts" it can muster to its cause. The residents, also concerned about the environmental impact, have chosen the power plant as the focal point for all their wrath against institutions they claim are out to turn their predominantly working class neighborhood into an upper class research center. And they feel that the plans will cut to the very heart...
...affection for their fine, flaky spirit. Nashville stars two dozen actors, many of whom contributed their own songs, a touch that lends the film musical cohesion (and saves on expensive music rights). By themselves, most of the tunes-and most of the people who perform them-would not pass muster at the Grand Ole Opry. But the actors are skillful enough and their tunes either sprightly or funny enough to work around this point...