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...tried to go too fast. Even the intensely partisan and conservative Funderburk caught this spirit. The past two years, he said, had had "a sobering effect" on the Republican class of '94. "You're slapped in the face by the reality that you can't make things happen overnight," he said. "We're going to have to project a more conciliatory image." Funderburk himself could not manage to do so, at least to the satisfaction of his constituents, but other Republicans had more success with the same kind of talk...
...Maybe I shouldn't send it," she said as she stood in line to send her ballot through overnight mail...
Although registered Massachusetts voters will line up at the polls today, Harvard students from out of state waited on long lines at the Cambridge post office yesterday to send their absentee ballots via overnight mail...
...public opinion does count. Suzanne Jenkins and her Florida neighbors have been living since August in the shadow of a 150-ft. tower that sprouted, toadstool-like, almost overnight. A month ago, however, the company that built it, InterCel, bowed to community pressure and consented to take the tower down. Here in Du Page County, PrimeCo has agreed to consider other sites. "If these companies aren't careful," says Gayle Franzen, chairman of the Du Page County board, "they may get the one thing they don't want"--a tough new set of regulations...
...realize that Rome wasn't built in a day and that the problems confronting women at the College will not be solved overnight. We look to the gender committee to take its mission seriously, keep a higher profile, meet often and provide much-needed role models for women at Harvard...