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...that made him look ineffective at best and hard-hearted at worst. First he was forced to pull back an immigration-reform bill when minority leader Tom Daschle tacked on an amendment that would raise the minimum wage by 90'. Then, just as Dole was preparing to back a token boost in the wage scale, 20 House Republicans bid him up to a full dollar. Dole suddenly seemed behind the curve, a scrooge in springtime. And then, on Thursday, five Republicans abandoned Dole when he tried (and failed) to attach a plan for medical savings accounts to a bill extending...
...hand, and for several months I was under the impression I would never paint again; I bitterly regretted the work I had never put down on canvas. But I learned to paint with my left hand, and will never again neglect my duties as a painter. By the same token, I'd been planning a book about the 1939 New York World's Fair. It was to be such an abnormal book--part history, part novel--that I figured it would be years before I worked up enough courage to write the thing. But when I got home from...
Fight for student input. It is outrageous how many decisions get made at Harvard without even token student consultation. For instance, no student sits on the committee that chooses the Commencement speaker. Students have few opportunities for formal involvement in University decisions. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility is one of the few important committees that has a permanent undergraduate seat. We cannot be a part of the process of running this University unless we are formally included...
CHRISTIE WHITMAN OF NEW JERSEY The Governor would close the gender gap, but there is the token question, Can she be President...
Anxious about looking like a tool of the Israelis and fearful of going on the offensive against an armed movement that still retains significant support, Arafat has usually made only token efforts to make Hamas pay for its crimes. P.A. officials, however, were outraged by the meeting with Lipkin-Shahak. According to one, it devolved into a shouting match: "They treated Arafat like a kid in school, telling him to do this and do that." Nevertheless, the P.A. rounded up some 250 Hamas members and renewed an old, largely unenforced demand that residents turn in unlicensed firearms or face prosecution...