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...said that he was pretty much a blank slate, and I think that's true. Look at the fundamental issues that face this country: economic development, especially in distressed regions of the country, health care, housing, education, the environment. There's no definition. There are 38 million Americans without health insurance. What would a Bush Administration do about that? I don't think anybody has a clue...
After seven years of loyal service, the Vice President must offer his own vision to America. Will the Reagan legacy harm or help him? -- "I' ve been underestimated over and over again," Bush tells TIME. "He' s a blank slate," says Michael Dukakis. -- Garry Wills on the rise of the ultimate yes- man. -- Calvin Trillin discovers a newer, prepackaged New Orleans. -- See NATION...
What is it about baseball that lends itself so naturally to metaphors of germ and birth, decline and death? Some might point to the statistical exactitude of the season, the precise accounting of hits and errors, the joyous regeneration of starting each spring with a clean slate and an unblemished record. On the playing level, baseball is the meritocracy to which the rest of America might aspire -- a pristine universe where performance matters more than pedigree and connections are what occur when a hurled spheroid encounters a swung hickory stick...
...move that could help resuscitate the pro bono cause, the legal world's No. 1 revenue earner announced an extraordinary program to encourage lawyers to give legal aid to the needy. As a supplement to the time that its lawyers volunteer, the New York City megafirm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom will establish a $10 million legal fellowship program to place 125 new law school graduates with legal-aid groups around the country over the next five years. "This fellowship is a further way for us to demonstrate that large law firms are concerned about the public interest," says Executive...
Beginning three years ago, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) used petitions to offer candidates against the traditional University-sponsored slate of 10; five overseers are elected each year, for six-year terms. Seidman was elected in 1986. Last year, Peter H. Wood '64 and Consuela M. Washington of the HRAAA slate joined Seidman on the Board...