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...administration wants to turn the area around the union into a "Humanities Arc" which would bring together 17 humanities departments and programs, including English and American Literature and Language, Women's Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures. Officials have suggested that uniting these departments will add to the intellectual ferment...
...well as the current effort to resume Middle East peace talks. Worsening the climate, Israeli and South Lebanese Army units killed six Lebanese and Palestinian gunmen as well as two civilians in clashes north of the security zone. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher waltzed into the region's ferment, arriving in Cairo at the start of a six-country tour. His task: to get the peace talks moving again...
...well and good," says Mayor Ulric Blackburn of the St. Lawrence River town of Chicoutimi, which was once solidly separatist, "but we're a little tired of that battle when jobs are really what matter." Quebec's 55.4% rejection of the constitutional agreement produced quite the opposite of political ferment. "After all these years of debates, referenda and what have you, what are we left with?" asks Louise Roy, a senior vice president of the Laurentian financial group in Montreal. "A dead...
That was another sign that the Democrat capitalized on the ferment in this year's politics. All three candidates talked about change, Perot in the most vivid terms. Bush tried to warn voters that Clinton's new direction would be too radical and costly. Clinton clearly won that argument by a significant margin. Asked to rank the importance of nine "candidate qualities," change drew the highest response (38%). Clinton won nearly two-thirds of that group, while Bush came in third...
Clinton views intellectual ferment as valuable in itself, and while he may have gone to school on Carter's shortcomings, he has described himself as being "quite taken" with Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. F.D.R.'s governing style has been captured best by biographer Kenneth Davis: "Whitmanesque in his zestful openness to a variety that . . . included contradictions, and in his 'yea-saying' to all and sundry, he was absolutely confident of his ability to 'weave together' antagonistic counsels and personalities . . . he talked with a steady stream of visitors, each of whom left him saying and often believing that he was deeply...