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...would think that the Harvard Democrats would take advantage of the confusion on the right and work to attract disaffected moderates from the Republican ranks. However, College Democrats have been doing the exact opposite. Harvard's proud Democratic tradition includes the intellectual foundations of the New Deal and New Frontier, giving America luminaries and presidents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38. Today, however, Harvard Democrats are intellectually moribund. As U.S. News and World Report wrote in November, "At Harvard--long the cradle of liberal ideas and leaders--young Republicans outnumber Democrats...
TOKYO: Three rival Japanese political parties have joined forces to ensure trade minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's victory as Japan's next prime minister in Thursday's parliamentary vote. United against New Frontier Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, the coalition is comprised of Hashimoto's conservative Liberal Democrats, the centrist Sakigake party, and the leftist Socialists. "What unifies these parties primarily is the desire to avoid scheduling elections," notes Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. "The bargain was originally to let a Socialist be prime minister; now it's the LDP's turn." Hashimoto has gained popularity and a reputation as a tough...
Carver had climbed aboard the Caterpillar to bulldoze open a weather-damaged road across a national forest. The hitch was, he wanted to do so without federal permission. Although plainly illegal, in Carver's mind it was an act of civil disobedience--a frontier Boston Tea Party--warranted by the tyranny he and his fellow citizens in Nye had long endured. But in this case, the purported tyrant was the U.S. government...
...divergent events as the Oklahoma City bombing and Ross Perot's recent proposal to launch a new political party. Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeling that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier life-style. Says Karl Hess Jr., a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank: "What they really want is to build walls against the future...
...headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior Department report says would cause "irreparable harm." There is a monster lurking in the frigid reaches of the north, and it is not Frankenstein...