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OTTUMWA, IOWA: Watching his once-formidable lead narrow under the steady onslaught of Steve Forbes, Bob Dole has decided the high road is the best route in the final days before Monday's Iowa caucuses. Instead of attacking his opponents, Dole preached the virtues of experience and conservative leadership to a crowd of supporters in Ottumwa. On Thursday, his tracking polls showed his support hovering around 22 percent. A strong late push had Pat Buchanan tied with Steve Forbes at 16 percent, and Lamar Alexander was running fourth at 12. The big surprise of the week came from Buchanan...
...populism goes. Oddly, for a man who claims to be deeply moved by the plight of the working person, he has nothing to say about raising the minimum wage, banning the use of "replacement workers" as strike breakers, or defending occupational safety and health standards against the Republican onslaught. In fact, his economic program is little more than the old millionaire-friendly supply-side economics, garnished with a twist of nationalism. Business, says Buchanan, should be free to do whatever it wants, except perhaps flee across the border in search of even cheaper labor...
With all the euphoria over the opening of Loker Commons, the University-sponsored publicity onslaught and the advent of "Crimson Cash," I thought it might be nice for the student population to know some of the unmentioned consequences of Loker Commons...
Hill started the onslaught by converting on two free throws before Demian sandwiched a three-pointer between two of Gilmore's. The rest of the game belonged to all of Harvard's perimeter shooters, as Scott and junior guard David Weaver (10 pts., four rebounds, two ass.) chipped in four and six points, respectively, down the stretch...
...packages. A timely example is the venerable art book, a Christmas delight for the MTVer as well as those who still think a VCR is some sort of honor bestowed by Queen Elizabeth. Bless the old darlings and the authors, photographers and publishers who stubbornly ignore the electronic onslaught to labor with inspiration and care to bring us the treasures of the world's museums, the pleasures of distant lands and the handiwork of dreamers. Here are some of this season's finest...