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...Clinton's side, Boren, a conservative Democrat who represents the oil state of Oklahoma on the Senate Finance Committee, led last week's bipartisan Senate revolt against the Administration's tax plan. At a press conference he and three fellow rebels -- Democrat Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and Republicans John Danforth of Missouri and William Cohen of Maine -- unveiled a plan of their own. The so- called Boren-Danforth amendment features lower taxes and more spending cuts than the President's proposal, as well as a cap on entitlements spending. The Boren-Danforth bill would also completely eliminate Clinton's energy...
...putative dissidents -- notably John Breaux of Louisiana and Kent Conrad of North Dakota -- declined to sign on to the amendment. Thus while Boren may be able to muster enough Democratic votes to join with Republicans in forcing Clinton to change his plan, there is little chance that the Boren-Danforth proposal can pass. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "The Boren-Danforth amendment will never make it out of the Finance Committee." What it could do, however, is be a starting point for negotiations. One possible compromise would be to substitute a gasoline...
...while Bill Clinton was still in Yale Law School, has fired a few broadsides of his own at the Clinton White House. Now, though, he may be able to help salvage the President's deficit-reduction package. Moynihan is passionately opposed to entitlement caps, and charges that the Boren-Danforth amendment would cut the "earned benefits" of more than 15 million Social Security recipients...
...William Stoughton, after whom Stoughton Hall is named, was the chief justice of the witch trials. Two treasurers of Harvard, Thomas Danforth and John Richards, acted as judges on the witchcraft court, along with their Harvard classmate Samuel Sewell...
Thomas Brattle, a classmate of Danforth and Richards, was one of the critics of the proceedings. The witch trials were finally brought to an end by the Reverend Increase Mather, a Harvard president...