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...many Americans exhibit is disturbing. In other nations, crusaders are fighting for the right to vote. The ideal of free and fair elections is still a cruel joke under many regimes. Yet, Americans frequently take their electoral rights and responsibilities for granted. Even worse, many Americans who are constantly complain about their government do not actually vote. How can those who do not vote expect their criticism to be taken seriously...
Some, frustrated by the loud interruptions to Sunday naps, jokingly complain that the reverberations must reach as far as the Quad...
David Batchelder sits with his wife Rhonda in a Dunkin' Donuts on the rotary, where patrons openly complain about the no-smoking policy. He and his wife are enjoying a belated Valentine's Day date. Batchelder is locally employed as an electrical engineer. He is a graduate of ultra-liberal Hampshire College, which he now describes as a "communist country." Today he is a self-described anarchist and libertarian. He supports Pat Buchanan...
...allows the peacekeepers to depart. By the measure of organized assassination, violence has subsided: only 20 killings that the U.N. delicately calls "commando-style executions" have taken place, a huge improvement over the 3,000 or so notched up by the military regime from 1991 to 1994. But Haitians complain that the respite will be temporary because the U.S. and U.N. chose not to disarm the rank and file...
Crusaders against grade inflation complain that Harvard's system has lost its evaluative power. Too many students earn Bs and As, they say, while too few receive the lower grades needed to legitimize the system. They have proposed solutions ranging from harsher curves within classes to a revamping of the 15-point scale. Yet no one has suggested the most obvious alternative. If grades fail to measure students' abilities and effort, why bother giving them...