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...digress and “download my anger to make room [in my hard drive] for more anger,” so quoteth former Vice President Al Gore ’69 . Or Robocop. Our sports teams are great this fall season—crew placed well at the Head of the Charles, women’s and men’s soccer are both pushing for an Ivy League championship, and football is poised to crush the Ivy competition—again...
...causes and unpredictable consequences. He was the first candidate of Ross Perot's Reform Party to win statewide office. He defeated two respected, if not beloved, career politicians--Republican Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul, and Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, state attorney general and son of the late Vice President. Ventura's slogan, "Retaliate in '98," seemed an off-key way to appeal to voters in a prosperous and well-governed state with 2.4% unemployment. Retaliate for what...
...basso profundo bluster, Ventura waged a campaign well within the mainstream of Minnesota political thinking. Outsiders view the state as a bastion of liberalism--witness Eugene McCarthy, Vice Presidents Humphrey and Mondale--but insiders disagree. Carleton College's Schier says Minnesota "is actually a quirky populist state. It gave 24% of its vote during the 1992 presidential election to Ross Perot." Ventura's fiscal conservatism--no tax increases, the return of all future state budget surpluses to taxpayers--struck a responsive chord. So did his moderate-to-libertarian views on keeping government from meddling unduly in private lives...
...intermediate position, saying that Harvard must both “[instigate] knowledge and [give] people tools” and reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions. The final panelist, Richard J. Zeckhauser, said that the outcome of the effort is more important than specific means. He pointed to former vice president Al Gore, who owns a “very large house” but has nonetheless contributed to combating climate change through his ideas. Though tensions rose during the discussion (one panelist tersely asked another if he “lived in an igloo” after the latter said...
...wife Kate Capshaw ($50,000 each), as well as former GOP U.S. Senate candidate Michael Huffington ($100,000); Robert Haas, chairman emeritus of Levi Straus ($200,000); and the California Teachers Union Issues PAC ($2 million). The media battle has been intense. Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (who had vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden on her show to oppose Prop. 8) has thrown $100,000 to buy TV time to fight the ban. Meanwhile, proponents of Prop. 8 - conservative groups and churches among them - have put up their...