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...generation immigrants, if that, were seen as pseudo-American. But due to their growing population and prosperity, it was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore their presence. As Jewish numbers climbed at the institutions of higher learning that had once been reserved for long-established families of white Protestant descent, anti-Semitism increased. Nevertheless, by the time Lowell took over as Harvard president in 1909, Harvard was more than 20 percent Jewish, according to a recent New Yorker article. Alarmed, President Lowell eventually instituted a quota that cut the population of Jews at Harvard down to 15 percent over...
Capt. Evans: Clearly a stereotype that I don’t like is that we are bad guys for trying to enforce the crazy behavior surrounding drinking and students. I always go to the orientations and say that we are not anti parties by any means. We know that you are going to have parties but we just need to make sure that they are under control and no one requires medical attention or breaks...
...Republican minority will be able to frustrate the radical left’s insidious campaign to Pelosify America. Filibuster, anyone? And even if the Democrats try to push through their homosexual agenda or their “let’s plan wars” agenda or their anti-SUV agenda, the righteous will prevail, because God is on our side—our “Mission Accomplished” banner will fly yet again. That is, barring any orc invasions, Republican suicides, or killer taxi cab drivers...
...same time, some of the biggest victories for the Democrats came from liberal candidates. In Kentucky, John Yarmuth, a liberal, anti-war newspaper publisher who the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thought had little chance of winning, took a very competitive seat that Democrats had repeatedly failed to win in the past. In Ohio, Rep. Sherrod Brown, an unabashed lefty who opposed President Bush's positions more than any other congressman in the country, according to Congressional Quarterly, defeated a G.O.P. moderate, Senator Mike Dewine. A Democrat named Carol Shea Porter who pulled out a stunning upset in a New Hampshire...
...looked as if incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making the mistake every pragmatic Democrat feared: putting soft-hearted personal allegiance ahead of cold-eyed political calculation. The first key decision she made since the Democrats' triumph in last week's elections was to back John Murtha, the anti-war hero of the left, in what seemed an impossible battle against Maryland moderate, Steny Hoyer, for the number two position in the House Democratic leadership, majority leader. And it wasn't looking good...