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Perhaps the most obvious source of Hart's allure is his freshness on the political scene. "He appeals to younger, better-educated and independent types who have little loyalty to institutions," says Alan Baron, an editor of a political newsletter in Washington. "They see Hart as new, independent and not owned by anybody." One of them is Dayton Owens, 27, a high school soccer coach in Jacksonville, Fla.: "He's not made of the old wood trying to take us back to the past instead of leading us to the future." For others in the Hart constituency, merely...
...have produced some better buildings but have not transformed the urban environment. Poverty programs, whether those from War on Poverty days, or more recent efforts such as the supported work program, have not reversed a growing pattern of dependency. The list could go on Leave aside the obvious questions of whether the American public ever had the patience to give some of these policies a real chance or whether they were funded to the extent required or whether other Federal programs such as highway construction and tax benefits for homeowners undercut their effectiveness. The truth is that none worked...
Unfortunately, some of Cesaire's dexterity in French suffers in the translation. For example, "ils tirent a blanc," has to be literally translated so that the double meaning of shooting blanks and shooting whites is obvious. There are other places where the translation falters: In "Tom Tom II," "a petits pas de pluie de chenilles" translates to "with baby steps like a rain of caterpillars," which not only sounds inane but loses the alliteration and onomatopoeia of the original. The English and French versions are on opposing pages so that the reader can concentrate on one version and refer...
...most people, it's impossible to get to town hall during the day--the advantages of longer polling hours are obvious for working people," says Stephen G. Roche, legislative director for the Secretary of State...
SHUTLZ'S fall from grace has been much less obvious or dramatic, but in many ways much more interesting. After all, Weinberger, for all his supposed bureaucratic skills, was still known, was skill known as a hard-liner on defense. But Shultz was real giant-killer, the man waiting in the wings all during Haig's failed vicarship, ready to restore cool, business-like leadership to an aggressive U.S. foreign policy...