Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months James Ostrowski, left, had a modest enough dream -- the gubernatorial nomination of New York's Libertarian Party. But last month something came between the Buffalo lawyer and his visions of matching wits with (or being ignored by) Mario Cuomo: a 900-lb., microphone-wielding gorilla named Howard Stern, who announced he was going after the party's nod. "I think I have a chance to win," said Ostrowski on the eve of the convention, held at the semicapacious Italian-American Community Center in Albany. "I feel Stern is using the party for his own purposes. I don't think...
Such adroitness comes naturally to a Fed chairman who has been in political training all his life and has managed to serve an extraordinary number of masters. A former student of the Juilliard school of music and a disciple of libertarian thinker Ayn Rand, Greenspan first entered politics as a domestic adviser to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign and rose to hold key economic posts under five Presidents. He suffered his greatest embarrassment in 1985 when, as a private economist, Greenspan wrote letters to regulators and Congress endorsing Charles Keating and his Lincoln savings and loan. Lincoln subsequently collapsed...
...also wonder why, as a civil libertarian, Prof. Dershowitz would so eagerly dismiss the courts as an aggrieved student's last line of defense against powerful university administrators. Joshua A. Gerstein '91 The writer, a television news producer in Washington, D.C., is a former Senior Editor of The Crimson...
ROTC first became a campus issue in the 1960s, when students and faculty called the program "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian." Faculty resolutions abolished Harvard's ROTC programs in 1969. The University tempered its stance in 1979, however, and established its cur- rent policy which allows students to takenon-credit classes...
...something was amiss. Here was a radical Sixties left-Libertarian being introduced by Harvard's tenured Fifties conservative. Openly lesbian, Paglia (pronounced PAH-lee-yah) supports the complete legalization of abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography and drug use. Mansfield, on the other hand, renewed his notoriety this year with his testimony that homosexuality undermines civilization. Pagila thinks our society needs more sex. Mansfield thinks we need more shame...