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...widespread revulsion with Congress has lent spice to an otherwise boring midterm campaign. Public-opinion polls confirm that a cynical electorate has not been paying close attention to the race. But the anti-Washington mood has made some contests closer than expected -- and added some distracting...
Despite its intensity, the antipathy toward Congress will have negligible impact on the midterm elections three weeks from now. Odd as it may seem, most voters exempt their own representatives from the contempt they hold for Congress in general. The local officeholder who does favors for constituents, attends parades and sends newsletters to the home folks often comes across as a benign exception to the general image. Of the 406 members of the House seeking re-election this November, only about 30 face serious opposition. The rest either are running unopposed or enjoy such a huge financial advantage that they...
...plan was a politician's worst nightmare. With midterm elections looming in less than a month, rank-and-file members of Congress were being asked to endorse the unpalatable idea that voters should pay more taxes while receiving less in the way of public services. Faced with that painful -- albeit necessary -- proposition, the lawmakers simply cut and ran, ignoring Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's admonition that "failure to enact the agreement would produce an adverse reaction in financial markets that could undercut our economy...
Core courses and introductory departmental courses impose a leveling mediocrity: they are too big, too impersonal and too general to accomodate much original thought. We soon learn to take the midterm, write on one of two "suggested paper topics," take the final, and get a B-plus. Go directly to concentration jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $20,000 tuition refund...
...course that won't be upping its requirements in the foreseeable future is Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert Coles' General Education 105: "Literature of Social Reflection." Although the absence of a midterm or final exam has led students to call Coles" class a gut, he insists that the class--popularly called "Guilt"--is actually very demanding...