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Perhaps the most striking thing about East New York is its enclosed, suffocating feeling. Most of the people live in the city's housing projects--brown brick buildings with narrow, dimly-lit corridors and miniature apartments. The schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High, have thick steel mesh spread across each broken window, and iron fences topped with masses of razor wire which surround the school and its playground...
...secret that the department is home to a sort of Rational Choice Church: you're either a rationalist or you're not. You either accept the narrow rational-actor paradigm as the comprehensive framework for explaining everything about politics--as many tenured American government professors at Harvard happen to--or you see the model as useful but not the final word--as Mark Peterson and most other political scientists...
Tuesday's primary revealed unexpectedly large support for Republican candidate Patrick J. Buchanan. In the Democratic race, former Mass. Sen. Paul E. Tsongas won a narrow victory over Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton...
...read the legislation carefully you conclude that federal law limited what state courts and state legislatures could do only in a very narrow way," Tribe said...
...that debate has caused considerable political fallout. In 1976, a Georgia governor named Jimmy Carter, a virtual unknown in New Hampshire, opposed the plant and gained enough votes from liberal anti-nuclear voters to win the primary by a narrow margin. In 1980, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) boosted his ultimately unsuccessful campaign by stealing the issue back from the incumbent president...