Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...their followers to meetings with Miller to trade budget-cutting ideas. The Republicans at first were extremely suspicious. Some feared that the President was trying to get them to take the risk of voting for unpopular spending reductions that Democrats would not support. "Who wants to be the fellow who votes against the veterans or cancer research?" asked Stevens. Nonetheless, the Republicans agreed to look over whatever the Democrats came up with...
Mugabe next held out the olive branch to former Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front, which had won all 20 of the white parliamentary seats in separate elections last month. Smith, who illegally declared Rhodesia independent in 1965 to avoid majority rule, responded by urging fellow whites to stay and support the new regime. Though a portfolio seemed unlikely for Smith, Mugabe reportedly wanted to include some whites in his Cabinet. One probable candidate: the present Finance Minister David Smith, a politically moderate technocrat...
...Washington, D.C., a young British journalist had come to the United States to work as a Congressional Fellow in Ted Kennedy's office, to watch the American system of checks and balances "at work." Today, William Shawcross says, he found Watergate "marvelously interesting. It was impossible not to be interested in," he says in a quiet, rational voice...
Marglin argues that while most professors here view him as a partisan, they deny that they themselves possess an ideology. "Many Harvard professors think of ideology as something the other fellow has," Marglin comments, adding that the prevailing attitude at Harvard is that the study of the social sciences can be objective, and this results in a limited spectrum of political ideologies here. He points to the preponderance of he main outlook in the Economics Department: a right-wing, conservative, free-market one. "If you compare my department's political-cultural spectrum to the world's, it by no means...
...last, The Crimson lends a hand to a Harvard alumna, Lu Shiu-lien, and her fellow opposition leaders pending a "sedition" trial before the military tribunal in Taiwan. Although the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) regime promises the American government, its arms supplier, that the trial will be fair, Burton Jablin's admirable, in-depth report makes it crystal clear that a fair trial before the military tribunal is a contradiction in terms. The trial has been postponed several times, because the KMT regime is waiting to size up this country's responses. As a student from Taiwan, I express my gratitude...