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...Ross Perot's announcement yesterday that he would rejoin the presidential race inspired reactions of disappointment among Harvard students, whose emotions toward the Texas billionaire's antics ranged from anger to indifference...
Generally, students thought that Perot--who never explicitly said he was a candidate before dropping out of consideration in July--was not a serious political contender, but a few expected his most recent action to adversely affect the race...
Most student anger yesterday was directed at Perot's reversal of opinion. Some undergraduates thought he had planned such a routine from the beginning...
WITH HIS BITTER PRESCRIPTION FOR ELIMINATING THE FEDERAL DEFICIT BY 1998, Ross Perot likes to style himself as the straight-talking realist of American politics. Perot was at it again last week, appearing on the Today show to chide the presidential candidates for failing to tackle the deficit, and hinting anew that he would jump back into the race unless they faced the issues...
...panelists in TIME's economic forum warned that Perot's medicine would be the wrong tonic to give the economy now. "It would be an absolute disaster to have a Ross Perot program in 1993," said Donald Ratajczak, an economics professor at Georgia State. "We would probably go back into recession." Concurred Boston economist Allen Sinai: "Deficit reduction at this time, when the economy is so weak, is the wrong way to go." That's because the painful tax increases and spending cuts that Perot advocates would take money away from consumers and companies, thus deepening the country's already...