Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...representatives should be held accountable for the successes and failures of the council. Chairs should be respected not for what they themselves think but for how well they turn student beliefs and council decisions into realities. The chair should speak only for the council; it is the council members, who speak for the student body. Campuswide elections might remove a layer of separation between the chair and the students, but it would also add a layer of separation between the students and their representative government...
...poised on the banks of the mainstream than to be swimming in its current. Its members are haunted by a feeling of alienation from the white majority with which they have so much in common, a sense that somehow they still do not quite fit in. They speak again and again of "living in two worlds." In one they are judged by their credentials and capabilities. In the other, race still comes first...
...pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and paid a $100 fine. That one made the papers again last week when Tower partisans were dredging up anything they could find "on" Nunn. "Well, that is something, isn't it?" says a senior White House aide, who will speak only on background because it doesn't take a genius to realize that Sam Nunn is going to be around long + after George Bush has retired to Kennebunkport...
...else must happen if Nunn is ever to become President. Americans will have to fall out of love with charisma. The words that define Nunn are "serious" and "studious." Thirty-second sound bites are not his forte. He once turned down a chance to appear on national television to speak about defense policy in response to President Reagan because the time allotted "wasn't enough to do justice to the subject...
Nonetheless, players at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue who just a fortnight ago spoke of working together have dissolved their fragile partnership and reverted to form. Democrats now speak openly of responding to Bush's budget proposals with a plan of their own. For its part, the White House hinted that it may soon ask Congress for renewed nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras, a red flag to Democrats who repeatedly fought over the contras with the Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, the public is left with an image of the Senate as a cockpit of partisan squabbling, the White House...