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...years old, among the youngest Homo erectus remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however, a team headed by Swisher decided to find out just how old the fossils really were, using instruments that determine age by measuring radioactive decay in fossils that have absorbed uranium from the surrounding soil...
...have appeared at Forum events. When Ralph Reed spoke on Oct. 30, he could not have received a warmer introduction from Mark Merritt, a former Republican National Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN) its spanking new conservative image. Forum director Campion comments, "I think what...
...idea had the virtue of directness: using moral issues to blame Clinton for the nation's decay, then offering the tax cut as a positive (and moral) alternative. But Reed and Buckley opposed its timing. They wanted the tax cut announced before the convention. Murphy and Sipple later surmised that Reed thought then--even if he hadn't yet persuaded Dole--that Jack Kemp would be the vice-presidential nominee. The tax cut had to come before the convention to make the choice of a pro-growth supply-sider more logical--and less craven...
...real leader might begin by ending this disingenuous crusade to censor music and the arts. Inadequate education, poor health services, grim housing, scant job opportunities and brutal, racist cops are the cause of urban violence and decay, not rap lyrics. Stop using the arts as a scapegoat...
Ultraconservative Muldoon emphasizes the need to revive religion and stop the "moral decay" of the country. He captured primary voters with his spirited speeches, ridiculing Rick Boucher's high-tech expertise, saying, "the information superhighway is a great thing, but you can't drive on it." Instead, he wants to build roads and infrastructure to lead business into southwest Virginia. His energy seems potent, but Muldoon faces a formidable opponent...