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...Last week, Conservative M.P. Robert Hicks suggested that as many as ten to 20 Tories "who are very uneasy about the present strategy being pursued by the [Thatcher] government" might be attracted to a new "third grouping." Liberal Party Leader David Steel, 41, called for the right-wingers to "abandon Labor" and predicted that a new party "could prove an unstoppable combination." The early polls supported him. One survey suggests that a new centrist coalition could win nearly 40% of the popular vote, vs. 31% for the hard-line Tories and 29% for left-leaning Labor...
...HAVEN. Conn.--Increasing costs of operation coupled with decreased government grants may force Yale to abandon its policy of considering all applicants without taking financial need into account, Constance White, Director of Financial Aid at Yale, said last week...
...themselves on their reputation as the most select, the most elite, and, well, the most "clubby" of all the clubs. But when it comes to picking new members, they do what all the final clubs on campus do. "Punching" is one of those rituals the clubs are loathe to abandon; they've been doing it since the days when somebody's valet lived in my Adams House room. Members page through the freshman register and locate faces, names and addresses which might fit into their club. Then they issue invitations to cocktail parties, eager to see what the new prospects...
...they need. It's very difficult for a white heterosexual male to imagine what a Black lesbian is thinking. But if we're ever going to understand why the Porcellian Club has no Black members, or why the Third World students marched into 14 Plympton St.--or learn to abandon security for something more valuable--a lot more people are going to have to start asking for bacon with their waffles...
...dangerous President since James Buchanan. On their first postvictory visit to Washington, the Reagans went to dinner at the Wills' in Chevy Chase. This inspired Garry Trudeau to a cutting Doonesbury cartoon. In a column last week Will good-humoredly noted: "Fearful rumors are afoot that I may abandon the columnist's basic stance of thorough disapproval of all conduct but his own." The dinner "was a small matter, but large enough to fill to overflowing the minds of some people . . . Will this columnist be as critical of Reagan's Administration as he was of Carter...