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Sensing an issue ready for exploitation, House Democrats, led by Speaker Tip O'Neill, crafted a bill that would mandate retaliatory action against any major trading partner of the U.S. that achieves an "excessive trade surplus" through what are perceived as unfair means. Said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan: "It's definitely going to help some Democrats on a local basis...
...Leverett House incident] only supports my theory that by virtue of its constituency, Harvard is held to an extraordinarily high standard of behavior," says Jacqueline A. O'Neill, associate vice president for government and community affairs...
...grates came down to diffuse the tense situation in the house and to keep pictures of homeless men on Harvard grates off 30-second television spots. "As long as they stood there, those grates were visible physical symbols of a large institution's callousness to poor disadvantaged people," O'Neill says about the negative publicity. "They were not taken down because they were mistakes...
...role of Harvard is not to throw money at the problem," O'Neill asserts. "While the University can collect data on the subject and influence policy-makers at the federal level, there is a greater role for individual volunteers who want to do something personally...
Responding to the suggestion that Harvard, the largest landowner in Cambridge, should donate land for a shelter, O'Neill says, "It's not clear that even if you had 50 shelters within walking distance of the grates that these guys would...