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...long as they are funded and recognized by the university, must be willing to accept students with differing views active participants, members and officers. The university should be a strong voice for inclusion and tolerance. If the university does not support such a policy, organizations can easily slip into narrow-minded dogmatism and the open dialogue which a university ought to provide becomes untenable...
...would mean Joe Lieberman's giving up his Senate seat, Connecticut's Republican Governor's appointing his replacement, and the G.O.P.'s getting a 51-49 majority--Democrats still want to be considered almost as equals, and Republicans realize they don't have room to run roughshod. "With this narrow margin in the Senate, there's going to have to be bipartisanship," concedes G.O.P moderate Senator Arlen Specter...
...those people with the placards? "Partisans." That's how the people who care about what is happening in Florida are labeled on TV: they are partisans, which is to say narrow little people who desire not what is best for the country but what is best for their party. The media derision for the protesters, most of whom are Republicans, reached comic heights when a generic CNN anchorman became testy on the air because protesters were making too much noise. Who are these people to be getting in the way of my narration...
Over the course of the next three days, we ventured into the desert, surveying exotic plants and animal life, always on the lookout for rattlesnakes, scorpions and coyotes. Afternoons were filled with trips in the speedboat, voyages of discovery. We would weave our way between narrow cliff walls a thousand feet high and explore canyons with such intriguing names as Forbidden Canyon, Dungeon Canyon and Hidden Passage. At every turn, we would find a surprise--a bizarre rock formation or a solid rock amphitheater suspended above...
...need all the help he can get, Fox's room for maneuver is exceedingly narrow. For starters, some 80 percent of his national budget is already spoken for in paying off external debt and the residue of Mexico's banking scandal, which will devour about $5 billion in interest. That gives him little to spend on efforts to promote economic growth, which remains his overarching priority. But even if he had the money to spend, he'd have to contend with the fact that he lacks a majority in the legislature, and most state governors still belong...