Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea that money from special interests drives American politics is appealing, in a way, because it suggests the possibility of an easy fix. If we are unhappy with our politics, all we need do is eliminate the distortion introduced by special interest dollars. That's no cinch politically, but at least it's clear what needs to be done...
Both HCS and the council conceived of an online marketplace independently. HCS had already considered the idea when Mahoney approached them last fall, Alpert said...
...grant Redmond that we as Harvard students do have obligations to others. I was always taught, and firmly believe, that from those to whom the most has been given, the most is expected. However, I disagree with Redmond's leap from the idea that we have obligations to our fellow humans to the idea that those obligations require us to elect a "progressive" council president and vice president to fulfill them...
...professors that have a lot of office hourshave a better idea of what the students want andwho the students are," he says. "[Those thatdon't], they don't know what the students know andwhat we want to hear and they're condescending...
...sidebar: Larry King shocks Lewinsky lawyer Ginsburg by telling him that the New York Times plans to print something about Monica's answering machine and what the President purportedly said on it. Then, 15 minutes later, he recants, saying he had no idea what the Times was going to print. This, as Greenfield later pointed out in the town hall, was not a bug, but a feature: Broadcasters can correct their mistakes in real time...