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...disappointed with The Crimson’s refusal to endorse the PSLM sit-in. The tactics that the staff scorns may or may not be frivolous; but when they are used to advertise a well-informed cause, deliver intelligent speeches on why a living wage would not affect employment at Harvard or draw students to pick up leaflets that explain why a living wage will support families, it is stubborn myopia that leads one to see only the fire-eating and not the cause itself...
...shaped the agenda, message and strategy that got Bush - the least experienced presidential nominee of modern times - into the White House. Now it is Rove's job to keep him there through 2008. "My job," Rove told TIME last week, "is to pay attention to the things that affect his political future." That's why, in the first week of Bush's presidency, Rove was bringing political advisers from New Hampshire to the White House to plot strategy for the 2004 presidential race...
...wrong when they say they think PSLM can “use pressure to force the changes that [administrators] will not willingly make.” Unless PSLM starts setting University policy from Rudenstine’s occupied office, it will have to use reason, not pressure, to affect change...
...Elias: As with any of these studies that claim very dramatic findings, there are going to be numerous exceptions to the "results." And that's in part because it's difficult, if not impossible, to accurately gauge the influences that affect each child's behavior...
...starting brush fires when negotiations weren't going his way in order to bring the U.S. fire brigade running. Even now, his strategy has been to allow and encourage Palestinian militants to fire rifles and mortars at Israelis, hoping to provoke them into heavy-handed responses that affect Palestinian civilians and draw international condemnation. Arafat may even interpret the Israeli withdrawal after a condemnation by Washington on Tuesday as vindication of that strategy...