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Perversely, though, politicians are also punished if they do obey. The classic complaint about President Clinton is that he stands for nothing. Which is to say, he's willing to do just about anything to satisfy voters. Since the 1960s, the number of Americans expressing trust in Washington has dropped from around 70% to near 20%. This is commonly interpreted as a judgment against the growing power of special-interest lobbyists. But it could also be a reaction against the increasingly abject spinelessness of politicians, a byproduct of the very same trend. Indeed, the one clear exception to the number...
Completely separate from their disturbing rhetoric (I'd call it imbecilic, but on the U.C. one must be politic), the defiance of certain student "representatives" in the face of what will almost surely become University policy seems to resemble the complaint of a 13-year old who tells his parents that he's old enough to run his own life. The fact is that the Harvard I applied to, the Harvard that I want to live and work and study in, is a place committed to establishing the broadest definition of the word "education" -- a place that reflects the enormous...
...apparently, do a lot of other people. Fleiss's conviction for providing three undercover cops with high-price prostitutes has spawned angry op-ed pieces, talk-radio rantings and feminist denunciations. The standard complaint is one of fairness: of the several parties to any act of pandering, only Fleiss was singled out for prosecution. But what seems to incense Fleiss sympathizers most is the severity of the penalty, which they say dramatizes the problems of mandatory sentencing. "It reflects the worst sense of priorities of our criminal-justice system," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whom Fleiss has asked...
Gregoire said he plans to picket Winthrop House, even if his complaint to Jewett and Epps produces results. Gregoire said he will also request that his student files be removed from Winthrop, and said he "doesn't really have confidence" in Mobley as a recommender for law school applications...
Harte would not comment on Gregoire's decision to file a complaint against Hanson...