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...officials bought out the original student night (March 4) at $5 a head, and are now peddling tickets at $8 each. So if you're an underclass student, you're stuck with the $20 general admission fare--unless you have a friend in the Pudding who'll let you usher...
...will smile knowingly, powerless to counteract my displacing magic, to set the universe right. Then, she'll usher me in and administer the exam for which I had five slow and leisurely days to study...
...America was among the nation's great political hobgoblins -- right up there with the Red Menace and the Yellow Peril. Public indebtedness, said Thomas Jefferson, who spent $27,267,622 of the national treasure to purchase Louisiana, is "the greatest danger to be feared." Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped usher in the Great Depression, declared that "government borrowing . . . is a device to load our extravagance and waste onto the next generation." Eventually, though, as Armageddon kept getting postponed and new generations thrived, the issue receded into the more fevered right-wing swamps. Then came the 1980s...
Later Rex Scouten, chief White House usher, remembers walking with Ford to his bedroom on that night, saying something about Ford's long, distinguished public career and how it might be best for him to move on and think of himself. Ford looked at Scouten with a great hurt in his eyes. "I don't believe so," he said. None of them ever...
...winners shouldn't expect to usher in the feminist millennium. With a Clinton Administration, there may be some easy wins on the Freedom of Choice Act, family leave and fetal-tissue research. But in a rating of his program by the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, Clinton received only a B-minus (Bush got a D), and in an effort to build a governing coalition, he may be tempted to distance himself from his party's more feminist and liberal wing. In the House, where women have traditionally been relegated to inconsequential committees, the new crop...