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...define what you are. This is especially true in a country as congenitally moderate as the U.S. Take the campaign of 1992. Polling data show that Americans are more attuned to conservative positions on major issues, such as taxes, government intervention, "family values," etc. Bill Clinton understood the nation's mood and ran as a middle-of-the-road "New Democrat." That is why for keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention, he chose not Jesse Jackson but moderates like Bill Bradley and Barbara Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Conservatism Can Come Back | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Apparently the Harvard administration is distressed because the proportions of humanities majors, Hispanics, students on scholarship, Asians, etc. in each house does not closely match the overall proportion of these groups in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Folly of House Diversity | 1/8/1993 | See Source »

...employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Christmas Films Don't Sparkle | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

Administrators might claim that the money question all comes down to alumni givers. That's reasonable. Perhaps it's true that hockey alums (a.k.a. The Friends of Harvard Hockey) want to give to the hockey team, baseball alums to the baseball team, etc...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Level the Fields | 12/16/1992 | See Source »

Kansas State was usually a major underdog in the league, sometimes not even predicted to come within 30 of certain other Big Eight teams (e.g., Kansas in the Danny Manning Years, Missouri in the Anthony Peeler years, etc...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Words of Wissman | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

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