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Thompson, the Whitehead professor of political philosophy, will now split his time between administrative duties and the ethics program...
...already set in place the single policy most responsible for his ultimate re-election--the deficit-reduction measures that gained the infant Administration credibility with the financial markets, which in turn helped the economy purr along. But his attempt to reform the nation's health-care system had split the country and overshadowed everything else, allowing the G.O.P. to portray him successfully as classically liberal and thereby capture Congress...
...Republican Congresses that squared off against Democratic Presidents came in 1895-96, 1919-20 and 1947-48. In each case the squabbling prompted voters two years later to pick one party to control both branches. The sad part is that this year the electorate felt compelled to continue the split in the apparent belief that it was as plausible as any other solution offered by our aging, even decrepit two-party system. Indeed, growing disillusionment with the two main political parties over the past three decades has been pointing toward exactly what came to pass on Election...
...this tandem was soon split up, as Petruccelli was taken out of action by a hard slide tackle that knocked him out of the first half action...
They'll have to be. In the second game of the season, Harvard takes on its super-arch rival Brown, who defeated the Crimson 9-8 in the Eastern Championships qualifier after the teams split their previous two meetings...