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...Internet, conservative bloggers questioned whether an anonymous G.O.P. talking-points memo calling the Schiavo case "a great political issue" was in fact a fake cooked up by Democrats. And DeLay, for whom the Schiavo case served as a well-timed media distraction in the midst of his growing ethical scandals, told a private gathering of the conservative Family Research Council that "this is more than just Terri Schiavo. This is exactly the kind of issue that is going on in America ... attacks against the conservative movement, against me and others, to destroy everything we believe...
...appearing to simply say "no, no, no" to President Bush's agenda rather than offering their own, Democratic strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg are suggesting that the party should offer an alternative vision on Social Security to Bush's private accounts. Republicans were thrilled with the Greenberg-Carville memo, which they think perfectly illustrated their critique of the Democrats: "Even their own trusted consultants Greenberg and Carville are saying you're not going to anywhere by just saying no," said House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce of Ohio. Senate Democrats are also searching for pro-life candidates in some...
Many professors dismissed this initial motion as too narrowly tailored to garner significant support among the Faculty. That motion even referenced a 1991 memo Summers signed while Chief Economist for the World Bank, arguing that the third world is under-polluted...
...adjust his ways in wake of the recent crisis, precedent seems to suggest that the media may not take very much notice. After all, as dramatic as his development was said to be at the Treasury, his reputation was thrown right back to the days of the World Bank memo as soon as he made his first missteps at Harvard...
...note alludes to several of Summers’ controversies, including a 1991 memo he signed while Chief Economist for the World Bank suggesting that third-world nations are under-polluted, his support for the military’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program—which is barred from campus and has been criticized for its ban on openly-gay members, and his statements calling the signers of a petition for Harvard’s divestment from Israel anti-Semitic “in their effect, if not their intent?...