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Rounding out the winners for Harvard were senior Ed Baker in the 3000-meter steeplechase, sophomore Taylor Buckley in the high jump, and junior Kobie Fuller in the triple jump...
...area is gray - the Roe v. Wade of campaign finance, 1976's Buckley v. Valeo, upheld limits on contributions, because of the "actuality and appearance of corruption resulting from large individual financial contributions." (The court found campaign spending limits, meanwhile, unconstitutional on free-speech grounds.) But while the fattest target would be Paul Wellstone's limits on issue-advocacy groups, the McConnells of the world - who still say the problem isn't too much money in politics, it's too little - will still be gunning for the whole shebang...
...guest, Ari Hest, hailing from New York City, took to the stage next. Hest followed his Midwestern college tour with this return to Boston for the first time since infancy and proved himself to be an exceptional performer. Hest emulates his influences: Toto, the Police, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, and Lenny Kravitz. His acoustic rock, which reveals some jazz and funk tendencies, is often equated with the sounds of Sting, Dave Matthews Band, and Buckley. His strong vocals, hardly daunted by higher registers, also contributed to an impressive...
...Buckley, Harvard's only other winner, took the 55-meter hurdles in 7.62 seconds...
...context of the rapes which occurred in early November, and the high rates of violent crime of which they are part, Bush's emphasis on tax cuts seems ill-fitted to our nation's needs and Buckley's pronouncement, which trumpeted them as the foremost moral priority, perverse. The challenge of our times may not be as acute as racial segregation or the threat of Nazi tyranny, which Bush alluded to in his address, but the subtle effects of economic inequality and the breakdown of the American family have equally profound consequences...