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After a day of complicated roll-call votes designed to offer political cover to legislators from both parties, the House Democratic leadership muscled its members into providing 150 of the 153 votes opposed to tinkering with the Constitution. The showdown ballot was on an amendment by conservative Texas Democratic Congressman Charles Stenholm that would have required a three- fifths vote of Congress for the government to engage in deficit spending; implementation would have been shrewdly delayed until 1997, when Bush and many current legislators would not have to deal with the resulting budgetary and legal chaos. Small wonder that Democratic...
APRIL 11--It was a showdown at the Ohiri Corral as first-ranked Harvard took on second-ranked Maryland. In a nip-and-tuck match, the Crimson squeaked by with a 7-5 triumph...
...When the showdown began, Buffalo had studied Wichita and was prepared. A federal judge issued an injunction two months ago that threatened antiabortion protesters with $10,000-a-day fines for coming within 15 ft. of a clinic door. Police and sheriff's deputies in the past month were given everything from "sensitivity training" to drills in how to protect their back when bending over to pick up limp bodies. Barricades were erected around the clinics before dawn, so Wednesday's charge against one in the suburb of Amherst, which resulted in 194 undramatic arrests, was reduced to an exercise...
BUSINESS: Showdown over Executive...
Today, the squad treks up to the wilds of Hanover N.H. hoping to keep its impressive streak alive. And it will definitely be showdown since Harvard (11-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy) currently shares the Ivy lead with Big Green (9-3 overall...