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Joshua D. Powe '98 describes the families of the students from his high school as "very influential." Graduates of the Dalton School, located on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side, include the children of Diana Ross, John Lennon and Robert Redford. About 10 percent of each graduating class goes on to Harvard...
...ROSS PEROT Four years ago, he was talking about a 50' gas-tax boost. He isn't talking about...
...that gas taxes should be higher. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton won't say so, of course. They're busy sparring over a repeal of the 4.3 cent-per-gal. gas tax the President included in his 1993 deficit-reduction plan. But pandering isn't inevitable: four years ago, Ross Perot and Paul Tsongas were calling for a new 50 cent-per-gal. tax to be phased in over a number of years. The Big Three automakers and oil giants Chevron and Conoco were onboard with the basic concept. Why? They had come around to the view held by every...
According to a 1994 Washington Post-ABC News survey, 59% of people who have reported encounters with flying saucers prefer Ross Perot to Bill Clinton or Bob Dole. When I read that not long ago, in a New Yorker piece by Michael Kelly, I told myself that the important thing was to avoid panic. There was no reason to go around clutching perfect strangers by the lapels and shouting, "Do you realize that if only people with flying-saucer experience vote, Ross Perot will be President of the United States...
...show. This one was about the 1992 election, in which Perot got 19% of the vote (counting both voters who have encountered flying saucers and voters who haven't encountered flying saucers). Apparently, when people are asked how they voted in that election, only 12% say they voted for Ross Perot...