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...Massachusetts, for the first time ever, Libertarian candidates are running for all of the top constitutional positions--senator, governor and lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor. A Libertarian is challenging Democratic Congressman James Shannon in the 5th district. The state party has candidates running in three of the 40 state Senate races...
During Campaign '82, PACs will directly donate at least $80 million to House and Senate candidates-a leap of more than 45% from 1980. Another $160 million may be spent by PACs on local races, independent political advertising, and administrative activities. Says Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts: "PACs are visibly corrupting the system...
...building has served a number of functions over the years, the most notorious of which has been its stint as headquarters, with adjacent Shannon Hall, for Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). That program came to a turbulent end in 1969, when anti-war student activists occupied University Hall and led a subsequent student strike, calling for a list of demands that included removing ROTC from the campus...
...bottom floor belongs in great part to the Harvard Yard Day Care Center, a University-affiliated nursery for children from 18 months to five years old: most of the clientele are children of Harvard faculty, staff, and students (Another similar center can be found in adjacent Shannon Hall.) The center has all the familiar hallmarks: awkward drawings of rainbows boxes labelled "Beans & Seeds," coats hung by their hoods on hip-high hangers. All around, toddlers run and scream, even, on occasion, wandering into calculus sections or Japanese lectures going on upstairs...
...Administration policies, pointing out that federal help has almost always been aimed at groups not served by local school districts. Says Willard McGuire, president of the National Education Association: "Block grants have been used to shift the battleground to the local level." Argues National School Boards Association President Thomas Shannon: "We don't know yet if the New Federalism ... is Orwellian Newspeak for the old federalism that existed in 1917 before the enactment of the Vocational Education Act and the Child Nutrition Act." James Gordon Ward of the American Federation of Teachers claims Reagan and Bell have...