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...What’s happening is a distrust of the old models of university governance because increasingly, in our culture, the only models that are taken as legitimate are those that are business models,” says Joan C. Tronto, professor of political science at Hunter College and chair of the Hunter College Senate...
Perot seems to realize he will never be President; too many Americans distrust and dislike him after his paranoid and imperious performances, from his baseless charge during the 1992 campaign that the G.O.P. was trying to disrupt his daughter's wedding through the 1993 debate with Vice President Al Gore over trade. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 54% of those surveyed believe Perot's formation of the new party is "good for the country." A two-thirds majority, however, think Perot should not be that party's candidate for President...
There is one point of solidarity where blacks and whites come together under the verdict: a mutual distrust of the American justice system. In an odd way, the trial's outcome has coupled the militant white right and disfranchised blacks in the belief that the same hand that planted the glove at Rockingham pulled the trigger at Ruby Ridge. While the Simpson trial wound down, Congress found itself incapable of producing the once surefire counterterrorism bill. It had been derailed by a coalition of conservative Republicans and civil libertarian Democrats concerned about giving broad new powers to law-enforcement officials...
...powerful than it is should never come at the expense of alienating large swaths of an irreplaceable faculty. Now is the time for compromise. Sacrificing his own ambitions and opinions for the good of the University is the only way for President Summers to lift the black pall of distrust, anger and estrangement now draping Harvard’s every corner...
Today, for all his talk of diplomacy, Bush is blithely unconcerned about the resentment brewing at home and abroad. Tomorrow, the distrust and discord he is sowing will be remembered by history as the Bush legacy...