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...peculiar support of decentralization on education issues can be explained by looking at the NEA’s own political station. It’s an organization that prefers to work in state capitals—while those routinely collectivized under the label “gov jocks” at Harvard might overlook the powerhouse of the NEA in glances at national politics, it’s a good bet that you can find an NEA satellite’s office within three blocks of any state House. And on a community-by-community basis, the same school board...
...Getting out in the Harvard community and interacting with students is one of the most important things that fellows do over the course of a semester, and Gov. Ventura has done a fantastic job of doing just that,” said Fellows Committee Chair David M. Kaden...
...you’re one of the lucky few to receive straight A’s your freshman year. You’re coasting until you get to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey “C-” Mansfield’s sophomore year gov tutorial, and he gives you–gasp!–an A-. Now your perfect 4.0 is a less little than immaculate. What is the quintessential overachiever to do? Just aim for an A+ like all of your friends at Duke and Columbia, of course! Oh, wait–Harvard doesn?...
...real lie behind Nader is evidenced by, of all people, Gore and former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean. Both are ostensibly far less progressive than Nader—yet recently both have shown a more sincere, more engaged commitment to the left than the Nader of today. After 2000, Gore re-energized and affiliated with the highly progressive MoveOn.org, giving laudable, widely-reported speeches against Bush and the Iraq war. He also threw his support behind Dean when the rest of the Democrats were afraid that endorsing such an outsider would ruin their political careers...
...former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis asked voters whether they wanted “a president who fights for the privileged few, or a president who fights for you.” In 2000, Al Gore ’69 argued that while Republicans fought for “big HMOs, big oil [and] the big insurance companies,” he was “fighting for the people.” And this year, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., very originally declared that his “campaign is about fighting big oil, fighting big HMOs...