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This is an old technique refined by Ronald Reagan and his budget director David Stockman: Spend enough money elsewhere, and you'll be able to resist calls for spending on programs you don't like. "We simply don't have the money. We spent it all on guns...
...came here to get away from the ridiculous pressures building up at Harvard," said Mike M. Stockman '94. "I thought this would be a good antidote for them...
...Stockman said he thought more Harvard students would have come to the event had they known about it. "I don't see why there aren't more students," he said. "There is nothing to actively dislike here. I guess the event wasn't well publicized around the Harvard community...
...Stockman's friend, Nick B. Cowell '94, said students ought to participate in events like the love-in because it gives them the opportunity to think about how they can make their life's work socially beneficial. College does not provide the same opportunity, according to Cowell...
...year is 1981, the uncertain dawn of the supply-side revolution. David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's Budget Director, is standing in the White House parking lot talking with Richard Darman, a powerful presidential assistant. A crisis is at hand: frenzied Republican and Democratic lawmakers are piling additional giveaways onto Reagan's tax-cut bill. Unless they can be stopped, ( the nation will be burdened with deficits in the hundreds of billions for years to come. "I don't know which is worse," says Darman, "winning now and fixing up the budget mess later, or losing now and facing a political...