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...Grand Canyon--and with the stroke of a pen made it bigger. Clinton toured nursery schools, talked about putting the Internet in the classroom. Dole visited graveyards, and talked about estate taxes. When he dispatched top aide Scott Reed to Dallas last week to ask Ross Perot to quit the race and endorse him, Perot could sit back, savor the spotlight for one brief second, and call Dole's gambit "weird and inconsequential...
Arkansas has not had a Republican Senator since Reconstruction, and it was assumed Bryant would have an easy time of it, especially after lieutenant governor Mike Huckabee quit the race. When Tim Hutchinson joined the chase, the odds changed. Still, Bryant follows a Democratic agenda, wanting to protect Medicare benefits, preserve the Clean Air Act and make college tuition tax deductible...
Sure, there are always going to be problems in this world we live in--many of which we will never be able to change as student volunteers. But is that a reason to quit trying to do what we can to make our communities a better place to live? I sure as hell am not going to give up trying. And I'm certain that you'll find that there are 1,700 Harvard PBHA Volunteers who won't give up either. --Dan Adam '97, PBHA Board of Directors...
...turns out they did it right: Ink doesn't stink. The first version was a strained attempt at something resembling '30s screwball comedy: Danson and Steenburgen finalized their divorce in the opening scene and were back at adjoining desks the very same day; when Steenburgen offered to quit, she was made managing editor instead. Even if the setup had been more plausible, the show proved how unfriendly TV is to stylized screwball comedy. Viewers don't want to be distanced by brittle, rat-a-tat comedy patter; they want comfortable characters they can relate...
...missiles. Eighteen years ago, Mike Cornwell, the County Democratic Chairman, and a few anonymous aides were Clinton's only companions; he now has a phalanx of Secret Service agents. His only interaction with my parents and me was much shorter: "Great to see you again--Tom, you ever gonna quit growin...