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...approaches the post-campaign futurewithout even the appearance ofcommand-and-control, Rudenstine may also be facinga comparison with his predecessor in Mass. Hall inwhich his hidden achievements may lose...
...depoliticize the council, to shift its focus from abstract debates about foreign policy and the plight of migrant workers to concrete issues like student group funding and cable television. Her approach was a direct refutation of the council's ideological status quo. In striking contrast to her liberal predecessor, the Georgia native is a Republican who interned for House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the summer...
...often, there is a tendency to view critically one generation in light of its immediate predecessor. Baby-boomers who grew up during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war have somewhat derisively labeled our generation "Generation X"--which, over the years, has come to mean directionless, apathetic, even lazy. Some argue that when they were in college they went out and protested--marched, made noise and, on occasion, found themselves locked up for their principled civil disobedience. All we do, on the other hand, is shop, watch television and complain...
...browser. Microsoft's statement Saturday confirmed that Gates was willing to modify his licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to let them decide which products and services they could feature on their own machines. But Klein wasn't interested in settling for another minor pact reminiscent of his predecessor Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than a Swiss Army knife...
...informants approached the family with fresh information about the killing. Meanwhile, county voters elected a new D.A., Lindsey Carter, who was more committed to the case than his predecessor. Two months ago, the state released 132,000 pages of documents from its infamous Sovereignty Commission, a secretive organization that spied on civil rights activists, and prosecutors have been combing those records, in which Dahmer's name appears more than 80 times, for new leads. Last month a state court ordered the Mississippi archives to hand over a 200-page transcript of an oral history Bowers provided in the 1980s that...