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...There’s no excuse not to leave campus,” says Peter F. Hedman ’10, the club’s vice president. “Our main goal is to get people OUT. It’s pretty hard to get Harvard students to leave...it is possible, though.”The Outing Club provides students with “anything you would want for backpacking, plus snowshoes, skis, kayaks” as part of their gear cooperative aimed at encouraging and supporting those who yearn to explore the outdoors, explains outgoing president...
...inspired to start the project in fall 2006 as a junior in high school. While helping some sixth graders write essays about their Thanksgiving plans, one student asked Shah how to spell the word “ball” three times. “That really hit me hard,” says Shah.He began to think of ways to approach this problem. The first project was an in-person tutoring program, but Shah says he found himself unsatisfied. “You end up doing a lot of the same things over and over again...
...with a 20% market share," scoffs Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, President Ronald Reagan's political director. "In our business, you need 50% plus one." It's probably true that since 200,000 Pennsylvania Republicans have switched parties, Specter followed them to save his own political skin, but it's hard to see how the mass exodus bodes well for the GOP. You can't have a center-right coalition when you've said good riddance to the center...
...That's the problem. The party's ideas - about economic issues, social issues and just about everything else - are not popular ideas. They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base. A hard-right agenda of slashing taxes for the investor class, protecting marriage from gays, blocking universal health insurance and extolling the glories of waterboarding produces terrific ratings for Rush Limbaugh, but it's not a majority agenda. The party's new, Hooverish focus on austerity on the brink of another depression does...
...emissions are fine for the environment and tax cuts actually boost revenues - even though the vast majority of historians, scientists and economists disagree. The RNC is about to vote on a kindergartenish resolution to change the name of its opponent to the Democrat Socialist Party. This plays well with hard-core culture warriors and tea-party activists convinced that a dictator-President is plotting to seize their guns, choose their doctors and put ACORN in charge of the Census, but it ultimately produces even more shrinkage, which gives the base even more influence - and the death spiral continues...