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Babbitt's most noted campaign moment was his stunt during the NBC debate in December. "I'm going to stand up," he declared, and did, "to say we can balance the budget only by cutting and needs-testing expenditures and entitlements and by raising taxes." Only a long shot with...
The hard-nosed questioning by Kalb, a veteranreporter who was formerly NBC News's chiefdiplomatic correspondent, has touched on a widevariety of substantive policy issues. Yesterday hepushed Simon on his plans for the economy; lastweek he hammered away at Gov. Michael S. Dukakis(D-Mass.) on the issue of his...
In ice hockey colloquialism, the above phrase describes hard-nosed players, those willing to dig the puck out of the corner by sticking their nose in and banging some bodies.
Markham, reports Lovell, was a high-fashion beauty who strode about three continents in slacks. She was tough and unusually strong and could ride anything. More practically, she understood horses. In the '20s and again in the '50s and '60s, she was the pre-eminent race trainer in East Africa...
Last year, you may recall, Penn nosed out Cornell on the final day of the season, 31-21, in a battle of Ivy undefeateds to capture its fifth crown. But Saturday's upset--it was Penn's first home loss to an Ivy opponent in six years--indicates that Cornell...