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...Stubborn Stags Stand in Crimson's Path: Tonight's game against Fairfield at Briggs Center should provide a good test for the Harvard team, according to Rullman...
...Reserve chairman, famous for taming inflation, is the odds-on favorite. Volcker's selection (especially in combination with Alice Rivlin, the leading contender for Budget Director) would calm financial markets worried about Clinton's commitment to reduce the deficit. But transition insiders are concerned that Volcker may be "too stubborn. We'd get great press by appointing him," says a Clinton aide, "but living with him for four years could be hell. On the other hand, if he can do to the deficit what he did to inflation, they can call off the '96 election...
...constitutional reform to a halt. His decisive no in the Manitoba legislative assembly not only doomed a complex pact designed to put the Canadian confederation on a new footing but also sent the country's political leadership back to the drawing board. Spurred in part by the Manitoban's stubborn stand, federal and provincial leaders agreed for the first time that a revised constitution must recognize native peoples' "inherent right to self-government...
...defense cuts and revenue measures do not bring in as much money as he expects. In short, he will not necessarily be bound by the specifics of his many proposals. That attitude could serve a President well up to a point; it is certainly preferable to a stubborn refusal to change come hell, high water or ruinous deficits. But it could too easily degenerate into a confusing and self-defeating backing and filling...
...ultimate success of any new opera, though, depends on the composer. Glass's stubborn refusal to "develop" his uncompromising idiom has exasperated some, who point to the more flexible, eclectic style of John Adams (Nixon in China) as a way out of the minimalist box. Glass's chug-chug style remains instantly recognizable, but his music has colored and deepened over the years. The Voyage lowers, thunders and rages -- it begins with the same six-note figure that opens Wagner's Die Walkure -- vividly reflecting Hawking's visions of terror and wonder and Columbus' dark and stormy night...