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...parties. That credibility gap has been growing for years, and the punching match this season between Bush and Bill Clinton has widened it. State Department officials did, after all, troll through passport files on Clinton -- and his mother -- looking for information to use against the Democrat. That the Republicans undertook so mindless an excursion gave a trace of credibility to Perot's latest charges...
...feminist causes. So too did her style: she favored severe suits and a nonexistent hairdo and kept her sense of humor well under wraps. Her goals were serious. "She worked in the belief that legal change could provide for social change. In her Senate record and the cases she undertook, she was always there for the hard stuff," says John Rogers, a former Attorney General and Labour Party stalwart...
...does not. One reason The Crimson undertook the diversity series was that many students on campus, including Asians, Blacks, gays, Hispanics, Jews, whites and others, complained that the institutions on campus created to improve racial harmony were not doing their job well...
Stone's task this time resembles the ones he undertook in such previous novels as Dog Soldiers (1974) and A Flag for Sunrise (1981): exposing characters to dangers, external and psychological, that they may be unprepared to handle. Owen Browne, fortyish, a graduate of the Naval Academy who served four years in Vietnam, now sells pleasure boats for an outfit called Altan Marine. Ruggedly handsome -- he appears in company promotional videotapes -- Browne is also by most conventional standards a good person, dutiful, loyal and faithful to Anne, an editor, writer and his wife of 20 years. The Brownes have...
Beys said he undertook the project to silence those who complained that the council could not bring a band to Harvard...