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...demonstrate his attempt to work up a Clinton caricature, is a montage of a dozen different, dogged attempts to draw the president-elect. I have a copy of this cartoon (which was reprinted in The Boston Globe) taped to the wall next to my drawing board in the vain hope that it will provide me with a little help, a bit of direction for the next time I have to burn the midnight oil and draw Bill...

Author: By Adam J. B. lane, | Title: Drawing A Blank | 12/2/1992 | See Source »

JAMIE HARMON--As a first-year, thisHarvard elite Democrat and U.C. member founded theCommittee Against Randomization to retain studentchoice of upperclass House. Three years, hundredsof meetings and dining hall announcements later,his efforts have been in vain. A determined butgrating campaigner, Harmon would be the perfectfollow-up to Jack Kemp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Send them PACKING! | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...rescue them. The team radioed the CIA's headquarters, and the agency ordered them to kill the men. ABC's Nightline planned a three-part series on the story but later dropped the project, as did the Los Angeles Times, which sent two reporters to Thailand in a vain effort to verify the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consider The Source | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...first, she says, the nation has to move away from the Reagan-Bush policies that transformed the war against drugs into a vain attempt at sealing the borders while rounding up dealers and users at home. Ronald Reagan dramatically shifted federal drug-fighting dollars from education and treatment to law enforcement. George Bush sustained those priorities, nearly doubling the antidrug outlay to $12 billion but devoting nearly 70% of it to the cops-and-Coast Guard approach. That strategy has contributed to the costly doubling of the prison population during the past decade. But while casual drug use may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would It Take to Get America off Drugs? | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

Verba said that the efforts of the committee, established in January, may prove to have been in vain...

Author: By Nan Zheng, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Clinton May Fix ROTC Problem | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

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