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...Larry Herbst Pasadena, California, U.S. Your story on the divided state of the country was inspired and posed a warning that all should heed. Disagreements are destroying the U.S. from within. Politics has become a major contributor to the breakdown of trust, without which government and civil society cannot function. And we are setting a ghastly example for the world. The presidential campaign was not a shining model of democracy but a no-holds-barred push to win at any cost - a sort of politics of mutually assured destruction. We should delay any future elections until the Democrats and Republicans...
Breyer admitted that the numerous components of American government—such as the separation of powers, the courts and the Electoral College—form a very complicated system. But he defended this complexity, saying without it the system would not function...
...community as a class, their lack of affiliation with a residential house impedes their ability to meet a substantial number of upperclassmen. This makes the Prefect Program all the more valuable, but its current budget—around $1 per student—is insufficient for the program to function optimally. Therefore, we welcome the University Hall’s announcement that the program’s budget will swell five-fold this year, and we hope that this raise portends both continued strong funding of the Prefect Program and an increased commitment to using upperclassmen as advisors to first...
Parliamentarians fulfilled a particular function after the upheavals at Harvard during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
...offered the mature sounding board that Kerry had been missing. Kerry's traveling staff took to calling Sasso "the Wolf," after Harvey Keitel's fixer character in Pulp Fiction. The old hands like Cahill, Cutter and Shrum remained in place, leaving everyone to wonder how well the campaign would function with two camps vying to guide it through the final, most difficult phase of the race. But one thing was clear: it would be different from here...