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...said that The Crimson did not intend to run the advertisement and that its appearance was nothing more than a communication mistake. We appreciate Crimson President Maxwell L. Child ’10’s letter to our readership in yesterday’s paper. May his words make clear that the advertisement in no way reflects the views of The Crimson Staff. And moreover, that we believe this item should never be found in the pages of a college newspaper...
...word had Robespierrian connotations of “sending people to the guillotine.” Former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and current Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy E. Noonan commented on the gap between abstract philosophy and practicality in politics. Politicians “have to make decisions in real time, decisions based essentially on practical calculations,” Noonan said. “It’s not abstract for them.” Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier ’71 challenged Sandel to more concretely define the meaning...
...majority of Americans under age 30 (52%) know a Muslim, but less than one-third (30%) of those over age 65 do. That's significant because researchers have found that knowledge of Islam and Muslims tends to make an individual more inclined to express favorable views of the two. "People who know a Muslim tend to be less likely than others to see a connection between Islam and violence," says Gregory Smith, a senior researcher at the Pew Forum. (See people finding God on YouTube...
...Republican target. "What I think people are looking for and what I heard back home is, they understand that we're trying to do really important things. They want to understand how these things fit together, and I think the President is in a great position to make the case of what a new generation of politics that focuses more on solutions than on the ideological debates looks like. Because there's so much uncertainty right now, I want for the American people to hear and to understand what connects these issues." Still, speeches only get a person...
...question Democrats have to be asking themselves is, How many times is Nancy Pelosi going to make them walk the plank and cast a vote for a fatally flawed bill?" asks Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which helps elect GOP candidates to the House. "This kind of overreach would be a policy disaster for middle-class Americans, but a dream scenario for any Republican opponent...