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...Clinton needs now that he's finally getting his presidency on track is another messy battle over a "marginal" issue that will distract him and the nation from his crusade for health care reform. On the other hand, if he were to win such a battle, Clinton might finally assert some authority over a renegade Democratic Congress, which has demonstrated little respect for the Democratic president it awaited for so long. Besides, the decision to contest a ruling that he would have praised a year ago underscores the schizophrenia-bordering-on-hypocrisy that has plagued Clinton's actions (or inaction...
...would very strongly assert that pre-medscare about this issue," said Jesse M. Furman '94,one of the coordinators of the meeting. "[Thatmore pre-meds did not attend the meeting]indicates a tremendous amount of fear that anyinvolvement will be held against them...
Harvard liberals continuously assert their commitment to respecting the rights of the minority, the voiceless, the marginalized. Their hypocrisy lies in their conveniently changing definitions of what constitutes a "true" minority...
...kids don't know much about that. But never mind. Televised westerns have filled the gap, imbuing them with the spirit of benign outlawry. They assert it first in the richly comic sequence in which they try to hide their horse from the police (who are in league with a rich man who wants to turn Tir na nOg into a champion jumper) in their tiny apartment. They maintain it as they move on into the west, where one of their refuges is, appropriately, a movie theater closed for the night. The sweetly funny improvisations of their flight through...
...panelists urged women to assert themselves with harassers by ending their "silent complicity," saying that silence will exacerbate the harassment...