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...priority, for it is easy to forget, in the midst of a prestigious academic institution that this is more than just an academic institution. For four years it is also the place we call home, a place where our emotional and social well-being must be looked at with equal, if not greater, significance than the academic work...
...their first debate of the 2004 campaign. No more than 10 minutes into it, two of those Democrats, John Kerry of Massachusetts and Howard Dean of Vermont, had entangled themselves in a ridiculous scuffle over the issue of gay rights. Not that they disagreed. Both are staunch advocates of equal rights and "civil unions." But Kerry believed that Dean had accused him of a lack of courage on this topic. "I don't need any lectures in courage from Howard Dean," said Kerry, a Vietnam War hero who probably should have saved that line for a more crucial evening...
There are plenty of Democrats who nominally supported the war in Iraq--five of the six credible presidential candidates did, but only Joe Lieberman supported the President's policies without reservation. Most Democrats were dragged along on this adventure, carrying suspicions that it was, at bottom, equal parts political enterprise concocted by Rove, ideological enterprise concocted by utopian neoconservatives, and family psychodrama--young Bush avenging and one-upping his old man. There was, as always, a congenital distrust of all things martial among the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," as Howard Dean would say. And it was Dean...
...Southeastern Conference, which includes Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, six of 12 schools are either on probation or under NCAA investigation, mostly as a result of coaching misdeeds. "Coaches have a high calling," says Charles Bloom, associate commissioner of the Southern Conference. "They are subject to a standard equal to or higher than anyone on campus...
...boost when converted into cheaper dollars, as did profits of U.S. firms with operations overseas. On average, currency gains added the equivalent of 8.5% of net income to U.S. companies' balance sheets in the first quarter, reports Credit Suisse First Boston. Oracle enjoyed an $81 million currency gain--equal to 14% of net income that period. Yet its shares have languished amid a brisk tech rally, partly out of recognition that the equation probably will reverse...