Word: webers
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Details so far are fuzzy to nonexistent. Working them out will be one of the jobs of Donald Rumsfeld and Vin Weber, who last week were named co-directors of policy planning. Previously, what policy planning there had been was run out of Dole's back pocket, and that was plainly not working. Rumsfeld, a former White House chief of staff and Secretary of Defense, is regarded as a tough and smart operator, but some party veterans consider him to lack a sure instinct for what will win votes. They hope that deficiency will be compensated for by the appointment...
...enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that double portfolio; and none of these men appear to want the job--unless, in Campbell's case, it comes along with an offer of the vice presidency...
...call themselves scholars and experts, are arguing about events that took place 2,000 years ago. Christianity and all other religions are in the realm of faith alone, and the best we can do is exercise the freedom to decide for ourselves what is right and believable. MELISSA R. WEBER Atlanta...
...Last year, blocking groups would have split up over wanting to live in different places", says Rachel L. Weber '99. "But it also offered a way of sectioning people out of the group without hurting their feelings...
...must be a godsend for a bassoonist--there's not much opportunity to shine with the instrument. Probably the best-known bassoon writing is Stravinsky's, such as the solo that begins "The Rite of Spring;" but Stravinsky produces a plaintive, wailing tone which is far from Weber's classical vocabulary...