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Some of the recent recruitment has been aimed at students, who already live in the Houses, and can afford to work short shifts without benefits...
...fact that Buchanan will probably have no effect on the electoral outcome in 2000 does not mean that the United States can afford to be complacent. On the contrary, Australia's lesson has been that it is not the political damage that ultimately counts. It is, rather, the social damage. The multicultural, tolerant fabric of Australian society was seriously damaged by the One Nation phenomenon in 1996-99. Racial violence and tension escalated during this time, and even though Hanson is essentially out of the picture, Australia is still grappling with these issues...
...focus." This kind of rationalization sounds like the remarks made by another promising candidate in 1992, an Arkansas Governor who pledged to voters that he had put his past behind him. That is the kind of comparison sure to make John McCain angry. These days, however, he can't afford to show...
...reply: the nation is not shuddering through a cold war or a crisis of confidence that demands a grand vision and buoyant spirit. The job, with the times, has changed, so that on any given morning, a President may have to wrestle with Mexico, Medicaid and Microsoft. Reagan could afford to be more full of principle than policy detail because his whole view of government was that it should do as little as possible; a candidate like Bush, with an activist agenda, is bidding for a job that comes with much more homework...
When I was a first-year, people hated Springfest because the council could only afford to bring a band called God Street Wine to perform. Maybe 500 people showed up. Last year, over 3,000 people came to Springfest because the Violent Femmes were a bigger name and the rides and games that we had were more fun. But we basically scraped the bottom of the barrel for money and this year, we may not be able to do the same because we don't have any extra money lying around like we did last year...