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...PUCC's decidedly liberal bent may swing well with a majority of students, but it at once alienates and enrages legitimate conservative groups and individuals on campus. Pushing one partisan agenda or another is no way to secure representative legitimacy in the eyes of the campus as a whole...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: PUCC: Sloppy Slap Shot | 9/23/1995 | See Source »

...still over a year away from the presidential election, but it appears that most campaigns are already in full swing. The Republican contenders have been jockeying for position within their party for some time now, trying to curry favor with the influential bloc of conservative voters that plays so key a role in the primary. On the Democratic side, President Clinton has started to make informal campaign stops and has stepped up his fundraising efforts...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Powell Doctrine | 9/19/1995 | See Source »

...fully automatic and displayed on the world's longest rigid, backlit video screen. Every aspect of the operation is overseen from a computerized command center on the fifth level. From there, high above the bowling floor, executive director Reg Pearson looks down on an ongoing tournament in full swing. The crash of bowling balls, the staccato of falling pins, the clatter of automatic pin-setting machines: the din is unimaginable. "It sounds like a cash register," Pearson says. "I love it." The sound echoes around Reno, which is being renewed by bowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RENO, NEVADA: LANES PAVED WITH GOLD | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...thoughts are ordered and formed in complete sentences--a truly dying art. His entire aspect is commanding and confident. He can appear compassionate and tough, sober and humorous in the same instant. But for all his brilliance as a performer, what Powell says as he begins a nationwide swing ostensibly designed only to pitch his memoirs (for which Random House has reportedly paid him $6 million) is so essentially noncommittal and even vacuous that one reaches back to an earlier soldier-politician for instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST LIKE IKE | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...routine, stretching and laughing with Brady Anderson , taking his cuts in batting practice, prancing around his shortstop territory in infield practice--how can any man find so much enjoyment in a ground ball, much less his 100,000,000th ground ball? Then he went off to work on his swing on the indoor batting tee for 15 minutes, and then he went over scouting reports on the Indians. Once the game started, he went hitless and drew a walk, but played his position flawlessly. (A shortstop has some special responsibility on every play that's not a strikeout.) And when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRON BIRD | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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