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...been on-topic, an achingly serious match that is less an extracurricular pastime than a kind of secular self-mortification. On-topic debaters all over the country argue a single consequential issue for a year. Off-topic debaters, who suddenly outnumber the on-topic traditionalists on most Northeast campuses, flit from one ephemeral subject to another every hour or so, allowing themselves only ten minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity of an armored truck. Off-topic debate, by contrast, is meant...
When the wrangling began last year, Republicans had high hopes of chipping away at the 243-to-192 Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. Seventeen seats had to be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven fast-growing states in the West and the South. Moreover, population shifts within the states themselves-largely from Democratic cities to Republican suburbs-promised to threaten dozens of Democratic strongholds...
...away with charging $3.50 for a small sandwich. I used to linger in front of it every so often to hear a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players. "Where is Waldo Park?" someone once asked the tuba player. "This is Waldo Park!" he said, gesturing to the northeast corner of 53rd and Sixth. Later that summer, I ran into the Players on Bleecker St., in Greenwich Village. Someone in the crowd asked the same question. "This is Waldo Park," came the answer...
...Sandinista operation was the regime's first concerted military effort to neutralize the Miskito minority, which makes up some 4% of Nicaragua's population of 2.7 million and occupies most of the country's vulnerable northeast region. The Sandinistas fear that the porous Honduras border, and the 336-mile Caribbean coastline, might eventually be used as a staging area for an invasion led by anti-Sandinista units. The forcible resettlement of the Miskitos was designed to prevent them from providing food, shelter and intelligence to the anti-Sandinistas. Whatever the reason, the Sandinista action against the Indian...
While the President succeeded in grabbing headlines, the drumfire of criticism did not abate. The United States Conference of Mayors warned that the 1983 budget would "seriously undermine the economic and social health of cities." The criticism from Governors was also widespread, but it was sharpest in the Northeast, where populous states already face severe budget problems. New Jersey's Republican Governor Thomas Kean, in office barely a month, charged that Reagan's budget "will have a severe human impact." Anticipating a $130 million state deficit even if there were no new Reagan slashes, Kean said New Jersey...