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...since 2005, when Kirby first created the position of diversity dean, following former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ controversial comments regarding women in science.“I think there’s a bit of fatigue sitting in with people not wanting to continue having to hammer down the diversity issue all the time,” she said. “After really intense attention to these issues after two to three years, people like to think there’s been a change, and they don’t have...
Republicans have been quick to hammer back at critics, saying that they should heed Democratic nominee Barack Obama's calls for the families of candidates to remain off limits...
...Campaign is a step in the right direction. Too often greens have relied on shocking the public with the threat of catastrophic climate change. That was necessary until recently - breaking through the barrier of denial built by climate change skeptics required all the subtlety of a hammer. But it's become increasingly rare to find Americans who still don't believe climate change is real, at least to some degree - now the question is what to do about it. And here again the We Campaign has the right message. Global warming won't be solved through small-scale changes...
...been exploring a new political and substantive approach to the abortion issue. They have relied heavily on the work of Rachel Laser, who runs the Cultural Program at Third Way, a progressive think tank, and has spent three years shuttling between abortion-rights groups and pro-life Democrats to hammer out agreement on a common goal of reducing abortion rates. "Americans find the issue of abortion morally complex," she says, "and they would like to see that moral complexity acknowledged, not swept aside...
...Democratic National Convention - Obama was failing as a candidate in two crucial areas. He had failed to define his opponent, and he was failing, in all but the most amorphous ways, to define himself. He desperately needed to do unto McCain what McCain had done unto him: hammer his opponent in a sustained, thematic way - not just a few tossed-away lines in a stump speech. That shouldn't be too difficult. An argument can be made that McCain is trigger-happy overseas and out of touch at home. In fact, Matt Welch made a convincing trigger-happy argument against...