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Tonight at 7:30, Dartmouth Coach Brian Mason will send the Big Green onto the Thompson Arena ice in Hanover, N.H to face the Crimson challenge (WHRB, 95.3 FM). Mason's heard all about the Harvard attack. He knows about the "keep it close and hope for the best" method. But Mason's not sure that's going to be enough...
...aide to get it within an hour. On the plane to the second debate, an aide wandered to the front of Air Force Two and discovered the Vice President talking out loud to himself, conducting a spirited, imaginary dialogue with his Democratic opponent. Bush's new self-teaching method, said one aide, allowed him to "concentrate on being himself, being natural...
...used a similar method in choosing the music. Most scenes, he says, were not paired with specific songs, except for Jesse Colin Young's "Get Together," which serves as the film's musical crux. During one scene, where Sutherland and Winona Ryder (who plays the sister of Sutherland's best friend) are escaping to Canada, the song "Wooden Ships" plays on the soundtrack. The lyric ("Go, take a sister then by the hand/Lead her away from this foreign land") seems especially appropriate, yet when pressed on this similarity, Thompson replies that it is merely coincidence...
...there was a vote in the House on abolishing the vice presidency. It failed, 85 to 27. Handling succession would be easy. We did it with Ford when we had to ((when Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in 1973)). It was simple. But instead of that method, I'd just reconvene the Electoral College. Under the Constitution, theoretically, they pick the President anyway, and the Vice President. It would give some meaning to the Electoral College...
...while the change may seem bureaucratic rather than substantive, its implications could prove to be far-reaching. Spence, aided by a group of new, more activist department heads, has seized upon the system of faculty staffing as a long-range method for insuring that his agenda is preserved after he leaves office...