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DIED The man many republicans blame most for George H.W. Bush's reneging on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge was Bush budget chief Richard Darman. As a top aide to Ronald Reagan, he was both an intellectual and a savvy technocrat. Yet the economist could be stubborn. After persuading Bush to reverse himself to reduce the deficit?a move that deeply damaged voters' trust and one that Bush called his biggest mistake?Darman maintained the error was tactical; the plan had just been badly presented. "I'm a long-term idealist and short-term realist," he said...
Wallace's slogan was "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties," which is pretty much what Ross Perot said in 1992. And on the issues Perot took up?the budget deficit and NAFTA?he had a point. With Americans angry about the economy and angry at Washington, Perot made NAFTA?which both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported?a symbol of the public's discontent. Perot won 19% of the vote, mostly among downscale Republicans and independents who had backed Reagan during the cold war but by then feared Mexico...
Even if undergraduates choose the beach over their books for the mini-term, an optional seminar program is misguided. Resources from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ already-stretched budget could certainly be better directed elsewhere than to an undersubscribed quasi-academic program. And given how slow and painful the development of the General Education curriculum has been, it hardly makes sense to ask the Faculty to simultaneously create yet another set of new classes...
...More than 200,000 refugees from Darfur are in camps in the region, along with 178,000 displaced Chadians and 43,000 Central Africans. A one-year budget of $176 million has been earmarked for the mission, although officials say it could cost five times that sum. The troops are meant to support a joint 26,000-member U.N.-African Union (AU) peacekeeping effort in Darfur...
...Frantic efforts to draw in new customers through a variety of marketing tactics appear to give the Flag something of an identity crisis: Slot machines glow in one corner; another looks like a homely living room; garish posters advertise budget meals; flat screens hang ready for televised sports; a bar runs the length of the pub to a small stage that showcases local rock bands. But, the vast pub is empty. Says Herring, "They know we are closing so they won't even renew Sky Sports [the subscription TV channel that carries Premier League soccer...