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Local politicos insulted the incumbent President for an hour and a half while the main event was caught in a Boston tunnel. Elvis finally hit the stage--to the applause of a thoroughly partisan crowd--and preached the gospel of the liberal Northeast to a crowd of the converted. His plan for a domestic Peace Corps, in particular, pleased the thousands of college students holding white and blue Clinton banners. The Man left the scene to enthusiastic cheers and a mix of soul and rock music which had the crowd clapping and swaying. It's unclear, though, whether this...
...more than 30 years the eight Ivy League colleges and M.I.T., as well as dozens of other private institutions, mostly in the Northeast, agreed that they would not try to outbid one another for talented students who needed financial assistance. Each spring this so-called Overlap Group, led by M.I.T. and the Ivies (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale), would share information about needy students accepted by more than one of the member schools, working out a standard financial-aid package. Last year the Justice Department charged that this practice violated U.S. antitrust laws by suppressing competition...
Only once did the facility go on full alert -- on Nov. 9, 1965, when a power failure darkened much of the Northeast. Bourassa says he feared at the time that it was the result of a surgical nuclear strike. His order: "Report to base at once." The site's fleet of buses was dispatched to round up the 200- plus employees who lived in the area. Up until then, officials had feared that the staff would not report in because their family members would not be sheltered. But that day, more than 80% of the staff answered the call. Bourassa...
...union director acknowledged that Harvard wages might be "slightly better" than those at other area institutions. But he said that the wages are "roughly comparable," and that Harvard wages are not the highest in the Northeast...
...pick-offs." The Democrats concede the "cotton South" to Bush and admit that such electoral-vote powerhouses as Florida and Texas will probably remain with the G.O.P. But they believe that Al Gore will help secure the border states and that Clinton will do almost as well in the Northeast as Dukakis did in 1988. Both sides think Washington, Oregon and Colorado will go for Clinton, and the President's men concede privately that the biggest prize of all, California, will probably be Clinton's. "It's lost," says a Bush aide. "Gore appeals to the environmental wackos out there...