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...consider the legacy of the man who created the paradigm in which their party has operated since 1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. A successful Democratic candidate true to his or her political roots will be a better friend to the poor and oppressed than any of Jackson's ilk. Such a candidate will, like FDR, make a determined and intelligent effort to promote a vigorous American capitalism in which we are all as concerned with making life for ourselves as we are with making a living...
...other words, all of us who thought that there is a positive role for government intervention in a market economy were shamefully mistaken. To Brookes and his ilk, the failure of communism means that any government intervention in the interest of social justice is economically and morally bankrupt...
...socially redeeming value. If public service were really the primary aim of these students, they could find plenty of other organizations at Harvard through which to channel their altruistic impulses. The Phillips Brooks House Association is only one of many. No, the essence of fraternities and organizations of their ilk is improving the social lives of their members...
...detractors say, perhaps unfairly, that if you put Gagosian and the rest of his ilk in a bag and shook it for a week you wouldn't get an ounce of connoisseurship. But that is not what counts. What does count is the instinct for when to grab the chicken, the hot artist, and get a lock on his or her work...
...Madama Butterfly. In fact, he had never seen or even heard it. But what he had gleaned of the plot -- about a Japanese girl who kills herself for love of a faithless American sailor -- summed up for him many of the stereotypes Westerners imposed on Orientals. He and his ilk, he believed, were expected to be submissive and fawning, often deceitful, and to show scant regard for human lives, especially their...