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...Harvard College Democrats bluster about "liberalism," their agenda is essentially a defense of the status quo. There is a name for someone with this type of outlook. It's called a "conservative." Harvard Democrats should adopt a true progressive agenda that speaks to the real concerns of our generation, not a mere echo of what the politicians in Washington's "line...
...council proposed that the University adopt a revised calendar that would have moved fall-semester exams before winter break. The Faculty Council swiftly rejected the proposal...
According to his mother, his first taste of politics came when his father, Newt McPherson, made a deal: if he didn't have to pay child support anymore, he would waive his parental rights and let young Newt's stepfather Bob Gingrich adopt the boy. Newt's own legal parentage was thus the product of a budget deal. The adults around him were never very respectful of authority or convention. He shared a room until he was nine with a free-spirited grandmother, who had a romance late in life with a mysterious government agent and taught Newt to read...
...House and Senate have passed measures to give tax credits to people who adopt children; they're stuck in a House-Senate conference committee...
...JAVA Neither island nor coffee, this miniaturized programming language from Sun Microsystems can add sparkle and interactivity to the most sluggish home page on the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of the Internet. Rivals--IBM, Microsoft and even Netscape--have all agreed to adopt it as a kind of Esperanto...