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...came to a start slowly, and the Harvard Yard dorms looked almost unready to shake off their summertime sleepiness. But in the half-night, half-day haze of a very early Friday morning, the first members of the Class of 1995 began trickling...
Schaefer, who moved temporarily to the department of human resources, is proud of his shake-up. Taking over a Cabinet colleague's desk, he believes, brings in fresh eyes and can inject new ideas into stale bureaucracy. He devised the plan while he was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987 because the city's departments "did not know they were interdependent." When he first proposed the idea to city officials, he recalls, "they thought it was silly. But the second time we got good results...
...Accuracy in Media (AIM), a 22-year-old right-wing organization headed by Reed Irvine. A political gadfly who still blames the press for the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, Irvine reached prominence in the early 1980s when he lashed the press for not giving Ronald Reagan a fair shake...
Only after months of prodding and nagging on both sides of the Atlantic did Bush and his closest aides realize that skepticism about Gorbachev's bona fides was not a real policy toward the Soviet Union. Even then, it took James Baker to shake the Administration to life. He is one of the best politicians ever to serve as Secretary of State. Critics say he is excessively concerned with how diplomacy is playing on the home front; he has been quick, for example, to justify the Administration's performance abroad by pointing to polls showing how popular the President...
...know one man who had to bury two old mattresses in his pasture, like dead cows. Anyway, in all primary seasons up to now, you would have found Gary Hart or some other left-winger with good teeth staked out at the town dump, ready to shake your hand...