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That's dangerous for bikers most of the year, but particularly in the winter, when roads are made more narrow by cleared snow...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: A Compromise For the Cambridge Common | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...important ingredient of the Reagan-Bush reign in the 1980s was the Republicans' ability to woo younger voters. Ronald Reagan's optimistic aura appealed to twentysomethings, who previously tended to support Democrats. Bush retained that support in 1988 by a narrow margin and did even better among slightly older baby boomers. This year Clinton ran ahead of Bush in every age group, but his largest margin was among those between 18 and 24. One reason was Clinton's limber courtship of the young in show-biz terms -- playing his sax on the Arsenio Hall show, for instance, and featuring rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Coalition for the 1990s | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...Clinton is giving signs that he is not up to the task. His campaign focused almost solely on the economy, an understandable move considering the interests of the American people this year. Yet, so far his transition team also seems to be concentrating almost exclusively on the economy. This narrow focus must broaden when Gov. Bill Clinton assumes the presidency. Clinton must have the foresight to look up from his immediate needs to improve the economy, and see the opportunity that is dancing on the horizon, because it may not be there for long...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: How to Prevent World War III | 11/13/1992 | See Source »

...cast falls into line with the director's narrow vision of the work. As a group they lack depth. The play begins with a scene between the father James Tyrone (Jack Aranson) and the mother Mary Cavan Tyrone (Patricia Conolly). The actors' forced voices and exaggerated facial expressions at first mislead the audience into thinking that they are watching a high-society comedy or drama instead of anything resembling O'Neill...

Author: By Brady S. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Long Day's Journey Plagued by Unrelenting Tension | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

More specialties mean "very narrow specialists judging very broad specialists," says Hayes, and a reduction in the flow of ideas between areas like chemistry and other scientific fields...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grappling With Inaccessibility | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

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