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King--who is registered to vote, but not affiliated with a party--has no problem with political science professors who are forthright about their politics...
...weekend night a Harvard undergraduate came into the E.R. after having a few too many beers. He was forthright in admitting that he had drunk "several" beers. I asked him--and it is standard to do so--if he used any other drugs, such as cocaine...
Clinton was best on what he is best about -- policy. As usual, he knew more about more issues than anyone present. Bush could have at least scored for humor if he had repeated his stump line about Clinton having more programs than there are problems. His answers were forthright and comprehensive, and almost miraculously, he avoided making long lists in all but a few answers. On the stump Clinton can appear too smart; indeed, at times he is almost smart- alecky, like the kid who raises his hand to remind the teacher that he forgot to assign homework over Christmas...
Instead, Harvard has delayed and wavered, making a colossal mess of what was a forthright decision. First, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, from whom we expected much more, set up a student-faculty committee to study the issue just a few months before the ultimatum was to take effect. To make matters worse, that committee requested a five-month extention on its own deadline, until just last week...
...been obvious that if Clinton truly thought it unethical for him to remain home after four of his friends died in Vietnam, he could have exposed himself to the same risk at any moment simply by enlisting in the military. Even now, a last "last word" and a forthright mea culpa would help immeasurably. In seeking to understand his candidate's self- defeating silence, a senior Clinton aide turned again to Hart and recalled the miniautobiography Hart had written shortly before the 1988 campaign. In the last paragraph of that otherwise forgettable book, Hart said, "The immortal Yeats wrote...