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...While the ad was not sanctioned by the Republican Party, it came on the heels of two that were: an RNC television commercial that concludes with a backlit figure of Ford striding into a dark hallway and towards the screen in a manner reminiscent of Willie Horton, and a fund-raising mailer designed by the state Republican Party bearing black-and-white photos of Ford that make him look much darker-skinned than he is and uses phrases including "purports," "pretends," and "passes himself off as" - all terms once used for light-skinned blacks who pretended to be white...
...knows that better than the Republicans, who from Richard Nixon through the Willie Horton episode have campaigned as the law-and-order party. Now they face a backlash from the same culture of fear and suspicion they benefited from before. Casting yourself as the answer to an "assault" on children isn't just a means of getting votes; it can also justify power grabs. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales argued last month before a Senate committee that Internet service providers should be required to keep a massive database of their clients' activity, ostensibly to track down child pornography. In 2002, Foley...
...trend is most pronounced at academically rigorous schools. "Ten years ago, this wasn't even on the radar," says Ken Fox, college and career counselor at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Mo. "Now it's the biggest thing going." Of 300 seniors at his school, 40 have already applied to colleges. At Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, 108 of 320 seniors have sent in applications, and a few already have admissions in hand...
...think he’s doing a fine job,” said Derek J. Horton ’08. “I know the faculty hates him, but I think he’s kind of running Harvard like a business—and I respect that,” Horton said Sunday in an interview in Currier House dining hall...
...think he's doing a fine job,” said Derek J. Horton ’08. “I know the faculty hates him, but I think he's kind of running Harvard like a business—and I respect that,” Horton said yesterday in an interview in Currier House dining hall...