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Theresa M. House ’04, the lone female and a solid Democrat, had McGeary’s back. “Harvard crams diversity and toleration down our throats,” she said. “They’re central pillars of its philosophy, therefore the college needs to say no to ROTC...
...that passersby could hear Harvard’s boisterous contributions to the pantheon of political theory. The ROTC discussion degenerated into yells of “I think you’re wrong!” and, “Of course you do, you’re a Democrat!” It was clear that this debate would not die without an interruption—so the first round of drinks were ordered. These politicians-in-training obviously didn’t need any alcohol to loosen their tongues, but we anxiously anticipated what would be unleashed when...
...state attorney general Eliot Spitzer is stirring up Wall Street again, investigating the mutual-fund industry for illegal-trading practices. It's the latest high-profile probe by the legal crusader who took on the big investment-bank analysts in 2002 and who, everyone assumes, will run as a Democrat for New York Governor in 2006. Spitzer spoke with TIME's Adi Ignatius about Wall Street, the Yankees and who would play him in the movie...
...Thompson's research led him to Doug Ross, founder of University Preparatory Academy in Detroit. Ross is a prominent New Democrat policy wonk who served in Bill Clinton's Labor Department, then went home to Michigan and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998. "I learned during the campaign there was one overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model...
After Sen. John F. Kerry’s appearance Monday, The Boston Globe’s Eileen McNamara criticized Matthews for tossing softballs to the Massachusetts Democrat. Yesterday she wrote that Matthews is a “longtime Democratic Party aide who plays a journalist on TV,” adding that “his partisan feathers are in full fluff...