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...always a matter of elaborate psychological discretion and democratic fine tuning. A President cannot in any important way violate the values of his people or the spirit of his time; not with impunity, anyway. A President, being standin, scapegoat and exemplar, works even closer to the Zeitgeist than Phil Donahue. Before the sumptuous Reagan Inaugural, Barry Goldwater objected: "When you've got to pay $2,000 for a limousine (four-day rental required at $500 per), $7 to park and $2.50 to check your coat, at a time when most Americans can't hack it, that...
...Folklore and Mythology major, Luhrmann calls anthropology "the most theoretically interesting field around today." After she passes her first strenuous year of general anthropology training--commonly known as the M. Phil--she will pursue an unstructured three-year program working closely with a specialist of her choice...
...tougher Jones budget. But Republican Jeffords ruined the maneuver. He announced that he liked the Obey package and would vote for it. Knowing that it would fail, he would then vote for the Reagan-endorsed substitute, a "bipartisan" proposal sponsored by Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio and conservative Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas...
...party leadership that, they felt, had been ignoring them. O'Neill, who knew that Republicans had been seeking conservative Democratic votes against his re-election as Speaker, hastily complied. In the budget fight, the resolution that won Reagan's backing was written primarily by C.D.F. Member Phil Gramm, a former economics professor from Texas; seeking their support for the measure, the President wooed the conservative Democrats harder than he did any other bloc. In the end, C.D.F. members cast 38 of the 63 Democratic votes for Gramm-Latta...
...essential aims" of his program. Indeed, it would, since it calls for even deeper budget cuts than did his original package and includes the 10%-a-year, three-year Kemp-Roth reduction in individual tax rates. Sponsored by two conservatives, Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio and Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas, it was worked out with David Stockman, Reagan's Budget Director. But it is bipartisan only in the sense that an unknown-and ardently courted -number of conservative Democrats may support...