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...their hard work, however, not a heck of a lot has changed on this campus in terms of the undergraduate experience in the last 15 years; reading through The Crimson’s archives back into the early 1990s finds complaints of egregious council waste and ho-hum, overly exclusive social life, bad TF-ing and lousy House community—the same that you would expect to find if you looked in The Crimson’s archives for this year...

Author: By Peter C. D. Mulcahy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Election? | 12/6/2005 | See Source »

...ideas. Everything on the table." He was alluding to the party's recent tendency toward mingy, small- bore campaigns. In 2002, many Democratic consultants advised their candidates not to dispute the President on his tax cuts and plans for war in Iraq-and limited the campaign to ho-hum topics like prescription-drug plans and blaming Bush for the economic downturn without offering a remedy. As a result, the Democrats lost ground in the House and control of the Senate; and they gave up still more seats in John Kerry's wishy-washy 2004 presidential run. This time the model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Democrats Are Happy Warriors | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...might take shape. Large segments of the population remain unconvinced, which does not signal, as many believe, that not enough campaigning for a political Europe has been done. Rather, the proponents of integration must reexamine their project to understand why so many are frightened and uninvolved. The continuous lively hum in Brussels is deceptive as long as the philosophical and political foundations of the EU are weak. As I leave the Parliament and head home, the location’s allure gradually fades and I wonder whether a truly European politics will ever be possible. In the wake...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Searching for Europe’s Lost Aspirations | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...believers. But the history of contact is brief enough that the first local person to fly in a plane - a young woman sent because the chiefs were suspicious of the strange craft - is still alive. The world remains quieter here, the green-leafed silence interrupted perhaps by the crepuscular hum of insects, or the morning call of the cone shell, blown at this time of year, when circumcision rituals are taking place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Back the Clock | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

SOME PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS HAVE CRITICIZED YOUR SONGS FOR NOT BEING HUMMABLE. CAN YOU HUM THEM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Stephen Sondheim | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

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