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...Despite the biggest and most costly peacekeeping operation in U.N. history, Cambodia remains a chaotic reminder of the difficulties of successfully imposing democracy through force, a lesson being relearned from scratch in Iraq. If Cambodians are, as Short says, "oddly reluctant" to analyze the violence and corruption that plagues their society, it is because most are still too busy trying to survive it. Pol Pot is gone, but history is a nightmare from which his beleaguered compatriots are still trying to awake...
...Lesson Learned The candidates' lack of honesty about tax policy during the presidential debates is a matter for concern [Oct. 18]. But remember the 1984 debate between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale, when the latter infamously predicted that the next President, whoever he might be, would definitely raise taxes? At the same time, Reagan said he would not increase taxes. Two things happened after that: Mondale lost 49 out of 50 states, and Reagan raised taxes. Want honesty in debates? Forget about it! Doug Weiskopf Cincinnati, Ohio...
Americans of all types were subject to a surprising civics lesson when Florida and New Mexico were decided by a few hundred votes each in 2000. Black voters, and those sympathetic to them, are particularly motivated by the events of the 2000 election, in which an untold number of black voters in Florida (and elsewhere) were prevented from voting by election officials trying to enforce illegal identification requirements, faulty equipment, state troopers temporarily detaining black drivers, and, infamously, by inaccurate felony rolls. The lack of redress for widespread voter suppression has caused much of black America to have a large...
Katie Gray’s letter published in the Crimson on October 29 (“Kerry has not Heeded the Lesson of 9/11”) repeats a couple of misleading claims that the Republican Party and the Bush campaign habitually make about the two presidential candidates’ attitudes toward terrorism...
...This lesson is particularly pertinent given the fact that this show is—embarrassingly enough for the Visual and Environmental Studies department—noticeably stronger than the exhibition of faculty work that immediately preceded it. Perhaps this show could teach students and teachers alike a few things about meaning...