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...looks as if Prop. 209 will be a stand-alone issue. Although its lead in the polls appeared to be softening slightly over the summer, the opposition to it has been plagued by financial troubles and internal divisions (it recently split into two organizations, Stop Prop. 209 and Campaign to Defeat 209). Pro-209 radio ads have been running for a month, with TV ads probably to follow this month; the anti-proposition campaign hasn't broadcast any ads yet, though it plans to start a radio campaign this week. If Prop. 209 passes, the question remains: Will it have...
...responsible for your huge gender gap. Concerns among women can be eased by how you answer the inevitable attack. Try something like this that telegraphs compassion without abandoning your position: "My daughter disagrees with me about abortion. I understand how she and millions of others feel. This issue has split our nation, and we have to find ways to bring us together rather than divide us." It's not much--but it's not a muddle, which almost all of your responses to the abortion question have been...
What a way to celebrate an anniversary! Last Tuesday, just over a year after announcing that AT&T would split itself into three parts, chairman Robert Allen placed a conference call to investment analysts to issue a progress report. What he said promptly knocked $9 billion off the company's market value: it dropped $5.625 a share to $51.50. The reason: the phone company, still the biggest piece, is likely to earn about 10% less profit in the third quarter than analysts estimated. Allen said that net in the fourth quarter will also be below forecasts. That means profit will...
...there are important funding issues to be decided. Should the council decide to play Ticketmaster and bring big-name bands to the Bright Hockey Center at the cost of decreasing the funding levels of student groups? I think the answer is no. Last year, the council was split on this issue. Each of us had an opinion, and we didn't really know what the student body thought...
Paul Hendrickson's The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (Knopf; 427 pages; $30) portrays the chief operating officer of the Vietnam buildup as a "tragically split man." Central to this view are McNamara's unsatisfactory answers to questions that have dogged him since he left the Pentagon on Feb. 19, 1968: Why did he choose to remain in office more than two years after he was telling colleagues the war was futile? And why did he continue to rationalize publicly a conflict he privately did not believe...