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When Senator-elect Scott P. Brown visited the Harvard Republican Club last spring, Rachel L. Wagley ’11 did not know that less than a year later she would be volunteering for Brown’s campaign to attain a seat in the U.S. Senate...
Despite their distance from Massachusetts, many club members across the country contributed to campaign efforts by calling voters through online phone-banking systems...
...what point in the campaign was this? It was probably about, I'd say, a week, a week and a half after the [Dec. 8] primary. They were popping up all over the place because there was a point when we actually ran out of signs. We ran out of signs, I think, three times, and we just told people, Listen, we ran out. If you want to do something, you can maybe download something or make your own. And all of a sudden, we saw these amazing signs. When we had our first snowstorm, people actually went...
...that a majority party would use the ability to have the super-majority to kind of push things through is leaving a bad taste in people's mouths, especially as you noted the fact that President Obama made [changing the way business gets done in Washington] one of his campaign themes. You knew he was going to be transparent, he would post all these bills on the Internet, and you'd have three days to comment on them. None of that's happened. So people are disappointed in that regard...
...series of alleged crimes by American servicemen and their relatives over the past 40 years - and the law that they say goes easy on them. "We've seen in this case that SOFA's protection range is too broad," says Park Kyung Soo, an activist at the National Campaign for the Eradication of Crimes by U.S. Troops in Korea, a nonprofit organization in Seoul. "It restricts the right to continuous detention before prosecution, and whenever people protected by SOFA go to court, an American representative has to accompany them." In the Burger King homicide case, activists also complained the treaty...