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...guilty. I admit it. Somehow I'm sure we all are. I see people every day in the Eliot dining hall, in my classes, on the street. But the sight of a familiar face often just doesn't seem enough to elicit from me a simple "Hello...
...curfews do elicit complaints from libertarians that they go too far in punishing the innocent majority to get at the troublesome few. Curfews in Phoenix and Miami's Dade County are under challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union. "People will gladly trade freedom for law and order," says Charles Colson, former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, who has been devoted to prison reform since he did time for his involvement in Watergate. "My worry is that the failure of current policies will increase public frustration to the point that people will go for the strong-arm answer...
Hopefully, we've managed to elicit a few laughs and smiles amidst the groans over the years. Harvard students, after all, are the toughest of critics...
...biggest heroes on this campus is tried-and-true conservative Professor Mansfield, who always manages to elicit some steam with his sometimes-well-thought-out, sometimes-off-the-cuff statements. Of all of the campus figures I've known in my ephemeral time at Harvard, he's the one who's done the most to make students think. (Of course, second prize goes to "Toaster Tutor" Noel Ignatiev, who criticized an appliance and left hundreds of discussions in his wake. And he's a Marxist...
People familiar with Arkansas will say local business is often funny that way. Furthermore, political and business intersections that would cause a ruckus elsewhere -- say between a Governor and a man whose company is subject to state regulation -- elicit few cries of conflict of interest. But the Clintons are in the White House -- and getting snagged on Arkansas roots is now a national spectacle. Every transaction during their political sojourn in Little Rock will become a measure of their character, of their ability to organize, administer and decide. In the First Lady's case, the stories that emerge portray...