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Disabled-rights groups lobbied hard to defeat an amendment to the bill that would have exempted transit systems in cities of fewer than 200,000. They argued that disabled people should not be segregated in special buses or vans. But Stan Kocos, chairman of Disabled Advocates of Fond du Lac, admits that his group was torn between support for the new law and the Handi-Van. Says Kocos: "We want lifts on buses, and we want the alternative service. But we'd hate to see a taxpayer backlash...
Daytime work was expected of Quayle (he had waited on tables at DePauw), and his father suggested working in the office of Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar. The father called his friend, fellow Pulliam editor Stan Evans. According to Evans, "Jim asked me to lunch with Dan. I did most of the talking and learned for the first time that he wanted to go to law school. I said I thought it would be better to work in the ((state)) attorney general's office than in the city government, since I knew that many of the people who worked there were...
...Stan Evans traces an arc in Quayle's career of rising (if belatedly) to expectations. The angle of the arc must now go up, dramatically. Quayle was born not only roughly a quarter-century after any preceding President; he spent another quarter-century blissfully AWOL from history. His press secretary, David Beckwith, calls the Vice President a "classic late bloomer" -- which means that the first three decades or so of his life do not matter, just the last decade. That is starting late even for a faster learner than Quayle has given evidence of being. How can he "rise...
...more Florida voters (24%) said they would vote for "anyone but Martinez" than said they would vote for him (22%). Still, Florida's G.O.P. moneymen are sticking with him. "He's the guy who pulled it off in 1986 when the odds were against us," says Florida G.O.P. aide Stan Smith. "You dance with the guy who brung...
...precincts. But that is just part of their problem. Fed up with hazing deaths, boozy parties, vandalism, rape, sexual harassment and acts of racial and ethnic intolerance, many schools are cracking down on fraternities and sororities -- or simply abolishing them. "They haven't kept pace with the times," says Stan Levy, vice chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The attitudes of the Greeks are of an era that has long passed...