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...community with such a tepid commitment to free speech is no community we'd want to live in--and seems a poor way to prepare college students for life in the "real world." We're dismayed that someone with such scant regard for the First Amendment has been nominated to head the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less than a cheap statistical game, unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. Scant attention over the last ten years resulted in its level being perhaps $2.2 billion below where it should be now. Reasonable people may differ as to the exact figures, but not as to their magnitude...
...Republican, even one moderated by years on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, can effectively lead a band of young, fiercely partisan White House communications operatives is far from certain. Gergen says he is "convinced" Clinton wants to "run a bipartisan government." But other than Gergen's appointment itself, there has been scant evidence of any commitment to the middle...
...mood lightened only when Yeltsin, 30 minutes into his speech, practiced a little pork-barrel politics and promised the students better living stipends and free trips home. A smattering of applause. Then Yeltsin pledged to increase the subsidy to the student cafeteria. A little more clapping. "If there is scant applause to this, that means food is no problem," said Yeltsin. "Or perhaps you are so undernourished that you are too weak to applaud." Finally, laughter filled the room...
...where 15,000 Muslims await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize a peace plan in its neighbor's year-old civil war. One increasingly vocal holdout at the U.N.: Russia, which historically has maintained close ties to Serbia...