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...find it easier to fulfill his No. 1 campaign promise -- revving up the economy -- the good news also poses a sharpening dilemma for him. How much stimulus does he need to inject, in terms of new spending and investment tax credits, and how big a price does he dare pay by increasing, however temporarily, the federal deficit? The President-elect allowed that the news "could have some impact on short-term judgment." Aides asserted, though, that they are still sure the economy will need jazzing up; the question is how much and how fast, and Clinton may not decide that...
...explained my concern to one of Malcolm's lieutenants sitting next to me at dinner. He said, "Don't you dare call Malcolm a Negro. That word reminds us of `nigger.'" In the early sixties it would have been provocative for me to say that we had two "Blacks." Malcolm's lieutenant suggested that I might say that tonight we had one Black and one Negro. I hardly thought that would do. I leaned across the table and put the question to Malcolm. Without hesitation he replied that although in general he did not like the word Negro, he found...
Starting this afternoon, the dare-to-be-different Crimson hosts swimming powers Syracuse, Villanova and Indiana in a three-day meet at Blodgett Pool...
...president of a mere student newspaper to be the very first to publicly call attention to the fact that indeed the king is naked. You may have rendered a greater service to Harvard, our mutual alma mater, and countless generations of future students than you can foresee or dare to imagine today...
...Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus. We are not interested in a square inch of Lebanese soil or a cubic meter of their water. The problem there is security -- the absence of a Lebanese government that can control its sovereign soil and prevent terrorist acts against Israel. Jordan cannot have a separate peace without solving the Palestinian problem. That makes the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the Israeli-Syrian negotiations the two key questions. With Syria we have a partner, and a boss who makes decisions. To what extent Assad...