Word: reasonable
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With recent political returns in this country making it more likely that George Bush and Michael Dukakis will be the two major party candidates in the fall, America needs Bill Lee--if only for the simple reason that he has a personality. He's not a very serious candidate--he hopes to abolish the law of gravity, for instance--but he often makes too much sense to be dismissed as a simple joker...
...same reason, the Dukakis victory is likely to stifle talk of drafting New York Gov. Mario Cuomo or another Democrat into the race...
...past six months, I have been working on a thesis project that studies the perspectives of Harvard-Radcliffe students in the hard sciences, specifically seniors in physics and the engineering sciences. The main reason for conducting such a study is to find the reasons why a large percentage of science students transfer out of these disciplines and into humanities-related fields...
...reason Jackson has been able to survive scrutiny--a thought columnists seem loathe to acknowledge--is that he, unlike virtually any other Democrat now running, has a loyal and well-defined constituency. Historian Alan Brinkley noted in The New York Times at the time of the Hart scandal that his campaign was mortally wounded by the Donna Rice affair precisely because he lacked a constituency. Hart was trading on his front-runner status and nothing more. The same could be said of Joe Biden. For a candidate without a natural constituency, any damaging revelation can bring a campaign...
Graham predicted last night that the legislative battle would be "a little rough." But she said the bill carries sufficient incentives to win over developers. The proposal carries tax credits to attract business support, and she said developers should have no reason to oppose day care...