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With polls forecasting an election sweep for Bill Clinton, some giddy Democrats are already using the L word: landslide. Not so fast, George Stephanopoulos. Even the most optimistic Democrats are predicting that Bill Clinton will not win more than 52%. But a real landslide ought to be well above that. Since 1824, when reliable popular-voting results became available, only four Presidents have made it into the 60% club. (One of them--F.D.R.--ran against a Kansan...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I believe all Hoosiers ought to have the opportunity to improve their standard of living and create a better future. That's why I voted to balance the budget while preserving vital investments in education, health care and job training...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On campaign financing] "My view is you don't put limits on spending. You ought to raise most of your money from your district, which I do, and most of it should come from individuals, which mine does...
Opponents also argue that hunters ought to control the state Fisheries and Wildlife Board because the fees hunters pay for their licenses fund the board. Robert Deblinger, assistant director of the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, referred to this as "sportsmen watching sportsmen's dollars." Deblinger sees nothing wrong with recommending that anyone interested in serving on the board buy a hunting license. So state citizens need both to profess the required belief and to pay a fee if they want to hold an appointed state office. We might as well allow only smokers to spend the revenues from...
...sexual assault have been reported in Cambridge. While the number of cases of "date rape" are unknown, based on national statistics it undoubtedly occurs here. The Harvard administration does not make available records on the number of rapes and sexual assaults--because it does not keep such records. We ought to demand that this information be kept, and be accessible to students and parents. The Dean's office also replaced the mandatory information sessions for first-years on sexual harassment, sexual orientation, and eating disorders with a by-request-only program. These meetings, hosted by the peer-counseling groups...