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Some argued that improving the committee elections process would be well worth the effort since it would eliminate the possibility of corrupt or inaccurate elections...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Undergraduate Council Vetoes Bylaw Amendment | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...addressed the pressing need of eliminating the possibility of corrupt elections. "It was a problem and it will be a problem if we don't face it," he said...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Undergraduate Council Vetoes Bylaw Amendment | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Nonsense. The U.S. used virtually everything it had except nuclear weapons. The U.S. lost because, in sending troops 8,000 miles from home, its government committed three errors: it exaggerated the threat posed by a monolithic, expansionist Red Menace; it overestimated the popular support and staying power of its corrupt ally in Saigon; and it underestimated the inherent advantage a guerrilla force has in fighting on and for its own territory. In short, America was thinking globally and acting locally, but getting it wrong both ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The War That Will Not End | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...procession of psychiatrists occupy the witness stand to testify to Reece's sanity. Sporting either gross or sparse amounts of hair, these men are corrupt and generally loathsome--the audience is clearly expected to hate these men. In one scene, an obese, glaringly bald psychiatrist sputters, "We may be able to vaccinate against murder someday...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: AN EYE FOR AN EYE: "Rampage" Shows the Horror of Murder | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991 settled the cold war, that long, Manichaean, superpower struggle between two opposing philosophies of governance. The suppression of individual liberties in the service of a common good stood exposed as hollow, inefficient and, most damning of all, corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Astonishing 20th Century | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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