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...Republican team will consist of the club's president, Kris W. Kobach '88, and Gregory A. Dohi '87, editor-in-chief of the Salient which is a conservative campus publication. But members of the opposing SASC team will field an extra speaker at the 8 p.m. divestment showdown...
...That's somewhat of a showdown," said Fish. "We've got the ability to handle...
With today's showdown House vote expected to be extremely close, the White House gave congressmen a draft executive order that they said Reagan would sign if the $100 million was passed...
...only permanent people were the managers and the accountants. I thought the theater should be built around the artists, and I always looked to find my sense of family there." In Providence, Hall gathered an ensemble whose members remained season after season. Their loyalty proved vital during the showdown with the Trinity board, which had grown impatient with his explicitly erotic work, especially an adaptation of the James Purdy novel Eustace Chisholm and the Works that featured a graphic abortion and an unabashed homosexual sensibility. When the board ousted him, the actors boycotted and led a community protest. The upshot...
Cajoling, as most lawmakers know, is something Reagan does expertly. But so far the Administration has insisted on taking a stubborn stance and forcing a showdown. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, last week quietly proposed to the White House that some compromise plan on contra aid be sought before any floor vote. He was turned down. Nevertheless, there was some feeling on the Hill that a number of centrist House Democrats could still be swayed. "Today, we'd win," said one Democrat. "In two weeks, Reagan may pick off just enough votes...