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...Bush had his first opportunity to put his stamp on the new budget," said David Evans, staff director for the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities. "That would have been a real psychological boost for the president's new educational plans...
...Overseers should be independent enough to oversee, and not merely rubber-stamp, the actions of the Corporation," says Wood, who was elected on a pro-divestment slate in 1987. Wood also says the Board should allow its members to publicly discuss Harvard-related issues...
Quote of the Week: "One year at Arkansas we beat Oklahoma [31-6] in the Orange Bowl and the state put out a commemorative stamp with my face on it. I was impressed. The next year, we lost to Texas and people were spitting on the wrong side of the stamp."--Notre Dame football Coach Lou Holtz discussing his days as the Head Coach of Arkansas football team...
...nights ago Ronald Wilson Reagan delivered his farewell address, his opportunity to put his own special stamp on the American agenda for the 1990 s. But Reagan, always one to wax sentimental relied on chauvinistic slogans and wasted the chance to offer the nation his view of how it can improve in the near future...
...tally -- 1,344 ayes, five nays and 27 abstentions -- might have added up to a lopsided victory elsewhere, but the flicker of opposition to a key Kremlin program was a historic event in the Soviet parliament, long considered no more than a rubber stamp. Had the leadership not sought a compromise last week between the central government and a handful of republics over proposed electoral changes, the count of naysayers might have been even higher...