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Bush's victory is intellectual as well as political. This bill reflects an extraordinary, even radical shift of the tax burden from the rich to the middle class. And in the weeks leading up to the bill's passage, Bush made a remarkably detailed and sophisticated case for it, most notably in Albuquerque, N.M., on May 12. Detailed, sophisticated and wrong--which makes his victory all the more impressive...
...gender gap that had worked to the Democrats' advantage since Ronald Reagan was in office narrowed sharply in last fall's congressional elections. For the first time in more than a decade, the Republicans had near parity with women. President Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove believes a shift among women with children under 18 was a major factor in the G.O.P.'s historic victory in last year's midterms, in which the President became the first Republican in a century to see his party gain seats in an off-year election. "9/11 changed everything," says a senior Bush...
Buck’s 1952 appointment of Wilbur J. Bender ’27as chair of the Admission and Scholarship Committee signaled the fourth major shift in athletic policy. Bender embarked on a campaign to carry out the policy of balance at the college which Buck had laid out, calling on Harvard clubs across the country to search out students who excelled in extracurricular as well as scholarly pursuits...
...while the political climate at Harvard remained tranquil despite the outbreak of the Korean War, with little activism on campus, Mansfield says a clear shift in the political beliefs of undergraduates was beginning...
More than 50 percent of the entering Class of 1952 attended public high schools—a large shift for the previously prep school-dominate student body...