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...young Lott family returned to Pascagoula, where Trent practiced law. But after less than a year, the district's veteran Congressman, William Colmer, chairman of the rules committee and a staunch segregationist, offered Lott a top staff job. The family packed their belongings into a green Pontiac Bonneville and set out for Washington, as Tricia put it, "to stay a couple of years and see if we liked...
...assassination attempt by the ultraleftist German Red Army Faction, is used to taking the heat for tough decisions. A senior economic-policy bureaucrat and later the top civil servant in the Finance Ministry, he was Germany's negotiator during the contentious exchange-rate talks of the 1980s. A staunch conservative on monetary policy, Tietmeyer nonetheless has supported European integration, and as far back as the 1970s sat on a committee that drafted an early plan for monetary union...
...closing the doors of Memorial Church to homosexual couples desiring to sanctify their union with a blessing ceremony, the administrative board is discriminating against homosexuals who have chosen to commit to each other and who want to do so within the auspices of the church. Harvard has a staunch policy on non-discrimination; to exclude same-sex couples from blessing ceremonies in Harvard's Memorial Church is blatantly to disregard this policy...
Many Western politicians are staunch conservatives who fear land-grabbing by the federal government. Gibbons, however, acknowledges the need for some government intervention, especially to protect the environment...
...education policy remains an unfinished symphony. Most school reformers agree that some kind of performance standards for students are necessary as well as greater competition among public and private schools. Until now, Clinton has offered a lot of ideas but few that go far enough to alienate his staunch supporters in the public-school teachers' unions. He has proposed a $10,000 tax deduction for higher education, a $1,500 tax credit for two years of college or vocational school, tax-free iras that can be used to finance college tuition, a plan to mobilize a million reading tutors...