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...Harvard is absolutely out-of-touch," said Herb B. Berkowitz, vice president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think-tank, "They're out-of-touch with ordinary people who get up in the morning at 5 a.m. and work long hours in order to put food on the table. Harvard is an elitist institution...
...University that means policy advice will probably be coming from places like Berkowitz's Heritage Foundation and that student-related fiscal issues will be at the top of discretionary money cut from the federal budget...
...overheard conversations between Republican members who had attended the Harvard orientation, and they said they were disgusted by what they heard in a political sense," Berkowitz said. "They were hearing people tell them how to perpetuate a system that they thought was corrupt...
...Berkowitz added that since Harvard has held its orientation program, public opinion of Congress has plummeted...
Like movies and news reports of violence, says Berkowitz, "guns should be thought of as risk factors in a public-health sense. Their presence increases the chance that something bad will happen, and not just because they have the power to cause injury.'' The word psychologists favor is prime. A gun can "prime aggressive ideas," Berkowitz explains. "People disposed to aggression because of their perception of the world feel powerful around guns, and those guns can prime their aggressive ideas. Weapons may not be a precipitating influence, but they are likely a reinforcing factor. Guns aren't neutral. They create...