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...financing, he hopes to return private donations if he wins the nomination and a compact is signed. Obama believes that he needs to accept private donations to remain competitive in the primary, but that he would like to preserve the public system, “now in danger of collapse?? (his words...

Author: By Nicholas J. Melvoin | Title: It’s All About the Benjamins | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...opposition political parties. Unfortunately, although Russia is moving towards authoritarianism, powerful international actors still have yet to protest this alarming tendency.These behaviors are clear signs that Russia has not escaped its history; Soviet perceptions and behaviors are pervasive in Russian society. In a way, the “collapse?? of the USSR is a misnomer: many elements of Soviet life still persist. Soviet control affected—and its legacy continues to affect—almost all aspects of citizens’ lives, their business and political relations, ownership of property, perceptions of foreigners (or outsiders), interpretation...

Author: By Kirill Babichenko and Arkadiy Leybovskiy, S | Title: Challenges to Rights in Russia | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...unlike last spring’s meeting—in which Harvard jumped out to a massive lead and then suffered a horrific, slow-motion, last-minute collapse??the Crimson kept applying pressure. The squad killed off all but the final of its 12 penalties, clearing the puck often and with ease and never really appearing in danger of repeating its agonizing history...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CROSS 'EM OFF: M. Hockey Tops Fourth-Straight Ranked Team, Avenges Last Year's Loss to Maine | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...while the public was consumed with dissecting the intricacies of her personality, personal attacks on the real corporate criminals have been scarce at best. Kenneth Lay is greatly responsible for Enron’s collapse??a corporate scandal that caused 5,000 people to lose their jobs and the lifetime savings of some 20,000 retirees to dwindle as Enron’s stock value shrank to almost nothing. Yet the American public has not criticized him for being too bossy...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, SKIRTING CONVENTION | Title: Martha Stewart's Recipe for Failure | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...while the public was consumed with dissecting the intricacies of her personality, personal attacks on the real corporate criminals have been scarce at best. Kenneth Lay is greatly responsible for Enron’s collapse??a corporate scandal that caused 5,000 people to lose their jobs and the lifetime savings of some 20,000 retirees to dwindle as Enron’s stock value shrank to almost nothing. Yet the American public has not criticized him for being too bossy...

Author: By Lia Carson, SKIRTING CONVENTION | Title: Martha Stewart's Recipe for Failure | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

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