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...this election is jobs and economic security," Howard Dean said in Urbandale, Iowa, a few days after Christmas. "Iraq is an important issue, but it's not as important as jobs." This seemed to be the sort of thing Dean practically never does--a descent into standard party cant. Democrats are almost always depressed about the economy and rarely obsessed by foreign policy. It was doubly odd because Iraq has been Dean's signature issue. He would probably be an asterisk today if he hadn't stepped out from the pack and opposed the war. And the election...
Dean tricked out his speech--a prepared text, delivered indifferently--with references to the power of the special interests and the need to clean house in Washington. But no amount of populist cant could disguise the fact that the speech was about process, not ideas. Indeed, Dean's whoosh of a campaign hasn't featured very much creative policy thinking. Think about it: Apart from his early stand against the war in Iraq, what has distinguished Dean's candidacy from that of the other Democrats? The propellant for the Dean surge has been almost all style and process--the Internet...
...Because the University hasn’t made a commitment to an academic objective for Allston we cant figure out where to start,” says Kathy Spiegelman, the director of the Allston Initiative...
Most of the moral arrogance here is typical of the cant Europeans incessantly write about the United States. Yet two of Higonnet’s outrageous assertions deserve particular attention...
With two games left to play against Columbia and Penn, Crimson (8-5-1, 2-2-1 Ivy) cant win the title even with a win over the Quakers, since Penn has won all five of its Ivy games thus...