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Harvard then tightened its staunch 3-2 zone and Fleming recovered a loose ball, drove the length of the court and sank a fall-away six-footer to bring the Crimson within three. Dixon then followed Fleming's efforts with a 13-ft, jumper of his own to cut Cornell's lead...
...tough political battle to emerge as Cambridge's new mayor last week. But for Vellucci there is no time to rest on newly won laurels. A string of social policy challenges await the council's senior member, who in recent years has controlled the crucial swing vote between four staunch conservative Independents and four equally committed members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
...BUSINESS) that if the President's program were presented this week for a single yes or no vote, few legislators would cry yes. Democrats are howling that further reductions in proposed social spending will strike savagely at the poor. Republicans are so horrified by giant deficits that some staunch conservatives are grumbling that planned defense spending ought to be reduced to stem the river of red ink. As Reagan himself noted in the budget message: "The voices of doubt, retreat and rejection are beginning to rise...
...shortly after election day. But what he may not realize is that an entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations, and generally attending a lot of boozy receptions. At once victims of their environment and staunch defenders of the red tape that puts food on their tables, the journeyman laborers of government toil in virtual anonymity...
There are, however, good reasons why we have not seen an orgy of video-Luddism, if only to staunch the flow of the criticism. Leaving aside television's massive economic power, simply too many people enjoy the swampy scatology and licentiousness of Three's Company and WKRP, not to mention the soaps. They don't speak up in defense of their entertainment because they don't have to. Television isn't going anywhere. Besides, a sizable number of T.V. addicts, one suspects, have already spoken up--against the tube. They're not consciously being duplicitous: Most intelligent people would probably...