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Students in both the BSA and Hillel agree with Epps that interest among undergraduates seems high, despite lack of student sponsorship and recent controversy about the film's historical accuracy. According to an article in The New Republic, many of the soldiers involved in the 761st Tank Battalion and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion said their units were not involved in the liberation of Dachau on Buchenwald. The film says soldiers from those battalions were involved in liberating those specific camps...
...761st tank battallion had five companies. They may have been 200 miles apart." Parks said. "I'm not ready to agree when some one white officer says they weren't there. I guarantee he would have had no way of knowing what they were doing...
...SORT OF VOICE YOU MIGHT hear wafting pure and plaintive from the holding tank in a county jail. With the face of an orphaned angel, STACY DEAN CAMPBELL offers no fuss, no frills, just righteous white-boy blues ("Would you run away from me/ If I came crawlin' back to you"). His debut album, Lonesome Wins Again, is 10 sticks of slow-fused Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back...
Many Democrats, however, voiced suspicion of Bentsen's enthusiasm for granting special tax breaks to oilmen, real estate developers and wealthy investors. Jeff Faux, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank allied with organized labor, complained that "you don't want to run your economic policy entirely around the concerns of Wall Street investors." Elena Hanggi from Little Rock, who trains community organizers and is invited to Clinton's economic conference this week, expressed "disappointment" at the pro-business slant of his top economic advisers but remains cautiously optimistic. In Washington as in Arkansas, she said, "Bill...
After George Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in 1988, From helped create the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank for putting flesh on the leadership council's ideas. The institute churned out dozens of well-reasoned papers on topics ranging from welfare reform to national service, catching the attention of party leaders and presidential aspirants as well as some nervous Bush White House officials...