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...weakness in Princeton's system centers on the student committee itself, a collection of three not so holy trinities, to borrow Brennan's metaphor. The committee consists of three current class presidents, three past class presidents, and three students selected from the student body at large. One need not dismiss young government enthusiasts entirely to question a class president's qualifications to make a decision that will affect a student's academic and professional future. A successful class campaign probably results more from candidate's popularity or familiarity with of students than it does from a debate over which moral...
Conservatives in the West have tended to support the first option, liberals the second. Given this fact, you might say that neither group deserves high marks for consistency. Indeed, these same conservatives dismiss increased contact with the Soviet Union as a viable foreign policy tool, and these same liberals push detente as a solution to easing East-West tension and making the USSR a nicer place...
...this issue is not history, but points to it. America has always been impatient with history, and has tried to ignore it or escape it. "History is bunk," said Henry Ford. The prophets of the counterculture agreed with that, as they declared history "not relevant." Easy enough to dismiss this as know-nothing arrogance. Yet in their own way, the Pilgrims and the founding fathers also sought to rise above history?that is, above the customary fate of other nations?firmly believing that America was a new start, a new order under the heavens...
...acting campaign manager for Walter Mondale, Glenn's chief rival, is uncharacteristically catty: "The movie is going to make Glenn look old." That sort of belittling comment is a hint that Mondale aides are at least a little worried about the film's influence. Glenn staffers either dismiss the movie as a factor or play it up gingerly. "It plays no part in our strategy," says Bill White, head of Glenn's campaign. "On balance, though, it's more of a plus." One Democratic Party strategist sees the expected endorsement of Mondale...
...inadequate historical sensibility truly the last word where the, right to life movement is concerned? Certainly it is not the first political effort to draw on corporation dollars and frequently distasteful, political techniques. Yet it remains difficult to dismiss the anti-abortion campaign as merely another special interest drive...