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Even though a similar event held last spring netted more than twice as much money for the social service organization, PBH events coordinator Marjorie S. Rosenthal '89 said the night was a success. "Most of our grants this year came from the Undergraduate Council and from Massachusetts alumni. Events like this draw a lot of public attention to us. They get things rolling...
HAVING pledged not to raise taxes or cut Social Security benefits, Bush must find the money somewhere. Since he can do nothing about the interest payments on the $2.6 trillion federal debt and could never cut enough money from social programs to do the trick, Bush must consider new weapons systems as likely targets. This means he should be asking whether the programs like the Stealth are absolutely necessary to our national security. In this case, the answer is a resounding maybe...
...euphoria of victory, however, two other revelations loomed as more important. The first was the voters' devotion to Canadian values, which Mulroney checked off in his victory speech. Among them: sovereignty, protection of minority rights and of social programs, and a commitment to the environment and to the development of unequal regions. The election, said Mulroney, "was not about those values, but about the means to give them greater effect...
...Insurance company, which is suing RJR because the potential buyout has undermined the value of all bonds that the food and tobacco company sold before the announcement. Not everyone was alarmed. Said Harry D'Angelo, a finance professor at the University of Michigan: "I don't see any major social dangers. The real challenges have been to the conventional wisdom that large numbers of shareholders provided the best means of financing industry...
PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...