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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's not the only trick that special-interest groups and rich people are using to stretch the laws intended to bind them. The result is an extravagantly expensive campaign season. While the amount that candidates for President and Congress will spend this year is estimated at $1.2 billion, the amount spent in other ways by the parties and special-interest groups may total $800 million more. There's no end in sight. Bill Clinton and Bob Dole both promised in their first debate that they would get serious about reforming campaign-finance laws, but they have studiously avoided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...only baggage tying down American education was the weighty price of college tuition, then the President's tax cuts will do the trick. He wants to provide $1,500 per year for two years of post-high-school education and a $10,000 tax credit for college tuition. Dole's more modest proposal will give a $2,500 interest deduction for student loans and restore the federally guaranteed loan program through private banks...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: Electioneering Education | 10/18/1996 | See Source »

Junior forward Tom McLaughlin registered a hat trick, scoring three goals in the victory. Captain Will Kohler added two assists...

Author: By Eunice C. Park, | Title: Men's Soccer Team Mauls Maine, 5-1 | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

Continuing a pattern it has followed in its last three games, the Crimson blasted off to a rocket-fast start on its home field. By the end of the first half, Harvard was up 2-0, and Kohler was well on his way to his first career hat trick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Soccer Cruises | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...something of his mother's gift for the sly Cheshire's disappearance before your eyes. Some primitives have believed that every photograph taken of a man peels off a layer of his soul. If that were so, nothing would be left of John Kennedy Jr. without his mother's trick of metaphysically absenting herself from the frame--a way of ghost dancing with both gawkers and the jackals of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WORLD NOT QUITE POST-KENNEDY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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