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...cost of covering so many candidates for so long, and pundits decry the supposed drain on America’s patience. But we should be concerned with the best interests of this country and its people. Change on any front—global warming, Iraq, the economy, or civil liberties—is unlikely for the increasingly embattled and defensive Bush administration. Four of his five presidential vetoes have come in this year alone. And with Congress also suffering low approval ratings, it lacks the confidence necessary to override the president. The 2008 election is the most significant political event...
...Faculty meeting on Nov. 13, I moved “that this faculty commits itself to fostering a civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” I intended this motion not as a new law but as an ethical pledge to think and talk about how to fulfill the university’s highest ideals in the context of difficult issues in difficult times. My colleagues voted massively (74-27) to “table” the motion?...
However, these steps alone are inadequate. These piecemeal measures are simply not enough to reverse the damage that has been done since Nov. 3. Under the emergency, the fundamental rights of all citizens have been held in abeyance, giving the government license to arrest anyone without due process. For civil society to function again, the emergency must be lifted immediately, and these extraordinary powers must be relinquished. The deposed judges must be reinstated, and the censorship and harassment of the media must end. Draconian ordinances, passed by Musharraf during the emergency, curbing the freedom of the press have...
...never seen anywhere else, but they also don’t want something too ephemeral,” Cannon says. “In the past you didn’t need a newspeg. However, it was always about what was happening and a topic in civil discourse...
...months, you'd be hard-pressed to say that at any point we've been gratuitous, nasty, personal. We've had some policy differences that we described. We're running for the presidency of the United States of America, not for student-council president. This has been a relatively civil campaign...