Word: claimed
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...glossy brochures Harvard sends to prospective students, the College brags about section quality. Even though Harvard is known for large lectures, the intimacy of discussion sections more than compensates for this lack of student-faculty discourse, the promos claim...
Despite the Senator's graceful claim that his defeat represented a repudiation of his views, Weicker's loss was due less to the abilities and ideology of his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Joseph Lieberman, than to the his being abandoned and ostracized by the conservative wing of Connecticut's Republican Party, which has never been thrilled by his outspokenly liberal views. In fact, William F. Buckley Jr. and other prominent conservatives in the state bankrolled Lieberman's campaign and made it explicit that they were doing so in order to pave the way for a politician with appropriate conservative...
...senator who stuck to his principles when they were anathema to his party and to much of the nation. Weicker's forced departure proves that the Republican party, even in its triumph, is unwilling to accept opposing views, and this only limits further the number of Americans they can claim to represent...
That circumstance has been barely tolerable to many Israelis (and many friends of Israel in the U.S. and elsewhere) under conditions they conceded were undesirable and hoped would be temporary. But Shamir is saying Israel's claim to the West Bank is unending and historically just. That is why the outcome of last week's election may pose not only a huge obstacle to diplomacy but also a threat to the political and humanitarian values that Israel and the U.S. have long shared -- and therefore to the essence of a very special relationship...
...coda after he narrowly lost the 1888 election to Benjamin Harrison on the issue of tariff reform. A century later, it is dismaying to contemplate the nation's march of progress toward the perfection of its democratic institutions. Imagine George Bush or Michael Dukakis having the temerity to claim that his campaign was waged on the battlefield of "honest principle." Or better yet, picture either candidate rising above "cowardly subterfuge...