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Duberstein's backers say his promotion will be a wake-up call for a drowsy White House. "They're entering the final stretch now, and they need a little adrenaline," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "He can energize the President in a way Baker couldn't." Others say that Duberstein's hard-driving style can be alienating. "Kenny's got a strong will and a strong set of convictions," says Tom Griscom, Reagan's communications director, who is leaving the White House with Baker. "He can be tough, determined. He knows when to put his foot down...
...unnoticed proposal to give $8 million to build schools for North African Jews in France. Even without these setbacks, Inouye may be too Byrd-like for younger members. "Inouye is the direction you go in if you really want to play it safe, not rock the boat," says Norman Ornstein, resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute...
Thursday, 14--Norman Ornstein Professor of Political Punditry Marvin Kalb announces his candidacy for President of the United States. "During my 'Candidates '88' conversations I have convinced myself that I am smarter, better informed and better looking than the current crop of candidates," Kalb told himself in an interview broadcast this morning...
Some observers think the line-item veto would actually lead to an increase in Government spending. Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, points out that in 1985 Reagan asked for 100 MX missiles, but Congress gave him only 50. If Reagan had had the line-item veto, says Ornstein, he could have used it to squeeze lawmakers, threatening to eradicate programs in their districts if they did not support the vastly more expensive MX. In Ornstein's opinion, Presidents, not legislators, are traditionally inclined to budgetary extravagance. "They have to make their mark in a relatively...
...People know our magazine and whatever we try to do shouldn't be overshadowed by this one thing," said sophomore Leigh Ornstein, associate publisher of Business Today. "It wasn't done maliciously and it wasn't done to glorify our magazine," she said...