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When Oprah Winfrey has declared you "more than a politician," when you've had dinner with Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg and received 300 speaking invitations a week, things are going well for you as a freshman Senator. So you might forgive Barack Obama for being cautious in his first year on Capitol Hill. Why should he risk blemishing an almost perfect public persona that could help him win the presidency one day? But last month Obama finally found his cause: he wanted to lead Democrats in the push for lobbying and ethics reform. The issue seemed perfect...
...Crimson has already offered one perspective (“Partisans Clash in Paintball War,” 2/3/06), FM decided to evaluate the battle strategy of the warring factions. Fearless and well organized, the Republicans charged out of the gates with guns blazing, while the Democrats pursued a cautious strategy of hiding timidly behind defensive cover. “Democrats are born cowards,” HRC member Chris B. Lacaria ’09 says. The HRC wrapped around the Dems’ right flank—like how their party outflanked Democrats on values issues—exposing...
...simply no way to tell if presidential power is being abused. Klein touts the successes of the spying program and laments that its cover has been blown, but getting the approval that the wiretapping law requires would not have impeded the program one whit. As for the newly cautious agents of al-Qaeda: if they were so naive as to suppose that their phones were not being tapped, then we would have little to fear from them. David Palmer Leverett, Massachusetts, U.S. Klein is out of touch with the U.S. mainstream. It's not just liberals but many conservatives...
University President Lawrence H. Summers sounded a cautious note on the booming global economy last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he warned that adjustments are needed to ward off a major economic crisis in the near future...
...While we didn’t initiate the trip, we’re delighted that the students are going,” Worth said, noting that the Middle East is “definitely” under-represented in the Harvard student body.Despite high hopes, Dagli was cautious about whether the recruiting efforts would pay off immediately.“We hope it makes a difference, and we’ll keep close tabs on what happens next year,” Dagli said.—Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...