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...constitution was finally amended to give Clinton a four-year term in 1986 (just when shorter term limits were gaining support elsewhere). At a time of pinched resources, Clinton has had experience of working within a financial straitjacket, setting priorities, concentrating on the essential tasks. The whole nation is in the grips of an antigovernment mood that he has dealt with in what was, until recently, the capital of opposition to government...
...walk is shorter than the walk to central,but Emack's is far more expensive thanToscanini's--one scoop is $1.65, and a double is$2.65. And it's far less tasty. The onceproudEmack's held the Best of Boston award in 1985, butthose heady days are long gone...
Most of the poems in "Most Way Home " are shorter lyrics. Of the form, Kevin says, "What I'm interested in is what it can do in discrete moments." When he describes his thesis, he say, "It's not like a collection of my best poems. There's a movement." There is a movement." There is a movement through his family's Southern history, but it is a movement through a larger history as well. The material for a few of his poems are salve narrative and documents; the introductory poem of his thesis is an advertisement for two lost...
Knowles followed Rosovsky's example with his own budget letter, though the current dean notes, "Mine was shorter and had pictures...
There are scores of other issues -- large and small -- buried in the drafts of two primary Earth Summit texts: a five-page "declaration" and a 600-plus- page "blueprint for action" called Agenda 21. The shorter statement, originally called the Earth Charter, was supposed to be a soaring preamble, along the lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The longer agenda was supposed to specify the problems that the world will face well into the 21st century and how to pay for their solution...