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Distrust of government is as old as the Republic. In fact, it's in some ways the basis of the Republic; the framers took great pains to dilute and spread out the powers of the central government. They did not want an overweening concentration of power at the center of our national life. At the same time, they arrived at those checks and balances through a spirit of compromise--something that's notably absent today in Washington. On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin noted that every member should "doubt a little...
However, it is far from encouraging that Brown’s action has been termed such a radical show of “bipartisanship.” In fact, this perception speaks to the outrageous level of factional division in the Senate. Thirteen Republicans voting for a minor bill is barely worthy of discussion, historically speaking. In years past, legislation regularly passed by such margins and garnered little media attention when it did. Yet, today, every measure seems split on party lines. Hostility and blind partisanship are the going order, and, as such, Brown’s adherence to basic...
...just been the lure of the forests and the forests’ products that have been the bane of the adivasis. It is also the fact that most of the tribal areas of India are mineral-rich. It is the “rich land of the poor,” as environmentalist and director of the influential Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi, Sunita Narain, put it recently in an opinion piece by that name...
...idea of “the greater common good.” Noted activist Arundhati Roy’s essay of the same name charted—through her example of dam building—how much havoc the process of development has caused. It is a well-known fact that approximately 40 percent of the land acquired for development projects in India belonged to adivasis. Recently, a committee composed of none other than officials of the Indian government acknowledged this fact...
...original version of the Mar. 1 sports article "Harvard Men Take Second at ECACs" incorrectly referenced "Bryant University sophomore Eric Sokolosky." In fact, Sokolosky is a swimmer for Bucknell University...