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Some Crimson players feel that Krass' greatest improvements at the outset involved a more sympathetic approach towards individual team members...
...underestimated him and were beaten by him. Dan Evans, Quayle's 1980 manager, says he was effective against Bayh because he was not being "handled," as in 1988 -- the Nancy Reagan excuse about debate "overpreparation." But Quayle needed help in 1988, when he was on the defensive from the outset. Indiana reporters say that even now he has not regained the confidence and ease he showed in his earlier campaigns...
Since the early 1970s sex discrimination complaints have been subject to a different standard of scrutiny than other cases. The assumption at the outset of such cases is usually in favor of the plaintiffs. The burden of proof thus should have fallen on the Fly Club. Instead, it seems to have fallen on Schkolnick and her attorney...
...arrived at this decision after a great deal of thought," Spence wrote in the letter. "[My] principal reasons are related to immediate and extended family. It should be said at the outset that opportunities such as this do not present themselves on a schedule over which one has complete control...
...with Bush's Inaugural Address, has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir likely to come out of the 1980s. What I Saw at the Revolution succeeds because it violates every rule of corridors-of-power autobiography. As Noonan explains at the outset, "Most White House books have been written by men and have an unspoken subtitle: What I Did with Power. Many have another: If Only They'd Listened to Me, the Fools! But I didn't have much power, and sometimes if they'd listened to me they would have been...