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While at Harvard, Wechsler resided in DunsterHouse and concentrated in economics. The classyearbook lists him as a member of the Harvard GleeClub, but also of the John Reed Society and theLiberal Union. Wechsler said most of hisactivities gravitated toward "left-wing studentorganizations...
...most polished of the new breed is Gianfranco Fini, 42, who deftly transformed the once frankly neofascist Italian Social Movement, founded in 1946, and unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections in March, shares power in the right-of-center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War II ties -- but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling...
...suit. Congress missed the White House's Memorial Day deadline for marking up health-care-reform legislation. Several White House officials said the best reason for taking the week-long tour of Italy, Britain and France is simply to escape from Washington for a while. "This," sighed a West Wing aide, "is no way to live...
...world. Last week junta leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army strongman blocking the return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, cavalierly engineered the installation of an 81-year-old crony as the military's handpicked President, in direct challenge to the U.S. A minority of right-wing legislators, including eight elevated after irregular elections organized by the military last year, declared that under the constitution, Aristide's long absence left them no choice but to appoint a successor. As a 21-gun salute boomed over the capital, Supreme Court Justice Emile Jonassaint was sworn in, in a technical...
...that he has cornered the market on "rational discourse" and "intelligent criticism," yet he describes the feminist term "empowerment" as "a code-word for abortion rights, universalized day care and the celebration for 'liberated mothers' and their bastard children". Rational debate or political diatribe (informed by a paranoid right-wing agenda)? You be the Judge...