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...Bill Clinton is no George Bush, and it is no accident that the new chief of staff lacks the hardballer's callouses of his predecessors. Rather than letting a lone chief of staff bring a narrow set of final decisions to him, as Bush did, Clinton will spend much of his time debating the pros and cons of issues with his deputies. "I don't see the job as a gatekeeper or as an enforcer. I really do see it as a supporting role," says McLarty. He intends to be an honest broker who will carry out orders, keep...
...cracking down on the right, some of the other measures taken by the authorities are dubious. The banning of extremist groups will probably mean little in practical terms. Most of those who commit the crimes either belong to groups that barely deserve to be called extremist or are lone operators. Officials admit that a ban also forces the more organized groups underground, making it tougher to track them. Nonetheless, political scientist Gerd Mielke maintains that the ban "is a blow against right-wing extremists in making their activities illegal. Much more important is its function as symbolic politics, as drawing...
Although he did not vote against the proposal,the lone dissenter, Thomson Professor ofGovernment Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., called theconcentration "just the sort of P.C. thing weshould be staying away from...
...lone offensive weapon, senior Ryan Hughes, dished out only five assists and no goals this season...
While Penn, Princeton and Columbia, duel for the league's top spot (and lone NCAA berth), Harvard will probably compete with Dartmouth, Cornell and Yale, for a spot in the middle of the pack...