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...compromise with Republicans, Clinton agreed to reduce his spending package by $4 billion and perhaps more, rather than risk losing a measure he believes represents a "booster shot" to the anemic economic recovery. The President had learned the hard way that as long as the Democrats hold only a narrow six-vote majority (Democrat Richard Shelby of Alabama has been voting Republican recently) in the Senate, Clinton will need the votes of Jeffords and four or five other moderates to avoid the filibustering of more conservative Republicans...
Though a vague ennui normally renders artfarts harmless, they will become fierce at any suggestion that their form of narrow scholarship is actually leisure. Most people would be hard pressed to find any practical value in studying "the representation of sexnality in 9th Century Monastic Poetry." But the artfart never misses an opportunity to mention how hard he or she is working, and what difficult, pressing work it is. Although most members of this species subscribe to near-socialistic liberalism, that doesn't stop them from leading a lifestyle prodigal enough to make Thorstein Veblen blush...
Often school board members have narrow moralistic or theological agendas. In California, so-called "stealth candidates" from the religious right a tempted to snag positions on community school boards, meeting with considerable success. One of their aims: to change the science curriculum by either eliminating evolutionary theory or including creationism...
Some have voiced a second argument against sexual restriction codes which relates directly to constitutional freedom. How can any university justifiably dictate morality to its students? Harvard's policy, though more lenient than the one on which UVA officials will vote next month, still reflects the University's narrow-minded view of sexuality. Though it has never seemed to stop determined students before, Harvard forbids males and females from rooming together. Should it also have the power to tell people with whom they can and cannot sleep...
WHILE HIS SUPPORTERS HAVE PRONOUNCED HIM stronger than ever after his narrow escape from impeachment, Boris Yeltsin left plenty of uncertainties in the hands of his political enemies in the Congress of People's Deputies when he flew to Vancouver. The legislators did vote to approve Yeltsin's call for a referendum, but they then ruled that at least 50% of the entire 106 million electorate must support him -- not just half of all those who vote. Few believe Yeltsin can meet this target. Twisting the knife, the Congress tacked on an embarrassing question about Yeltsin's economic performance...