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...Crimson's concern about these issues seems not to be that they are excessively radical--for they clearly are not--but that the council, "with its frightfully bad reputation," cannot serve as "a credible voice on these issues." That, of course, was PUCC's point at the outset. Only a representative council that places itself at the heart of campus debate over these issues--not dictating positions to students, but providing a venue for the articulation of interests and concerns--can wield a credible voice. We want to create such an Undergraduate Council, and believe that Harvard's students deserve...
...stump speech to the convention that is otherwise colorless--Lugar's idea of an applause line is, "Let me say at the outset that a strong America is imperative"--he jolts his audience midway through. "I am advocating," he declares, "nothing less than the ending of all income tax, the abolishing of the Internal Revenue Service, and the substitution of a national sales tax." (He draws cheers.) Lugar wants to eliminate all personal and corporate income taxes, including estate and inheritance taxes, in favor of a 17% national sales tax on goods and services. To prevent the system from being...
...aides have clashed from the outset. When Wilson named Fuller his campaign chairman in June, Gorton, who has a penchant for Far East spirituality, went off to Thailand in a huff. But he returned to do battle. Soon Fuller found himself up against Gorton's vision: to squeeze Wilson's name onto the Dole-controlled ballot in the high-visibility New York primary, even at the price of $750,000 in signature gathering plus legal costs. Gorton won that debate. Then came the one over Iowa. Fuller said, "You can't run a media campaign elsewhere...
Marshall sidesteps into a more complicated dilemma involving his wife, a pretty student with whom he is flirting and a colleague charged with sexual abuse. Everyone in the novel, needless to say, turns out to be "another you" from the one apparent at the outset. But the narrative, crammed with choppy incident and dialogue, never gathers enough force to power the story. This is Beattie's first novel in five years (she has published one collection of short stories since 1990's Picturing Will), and so a real disappointment. She was an authentic voice of the late 1970s...
...From the outset, Harvard treated the murder-suicide as a case of two victims, rather than a victim and a perpetrator. It seems as though Tadesse was never referred to using the active voice: signs, newspapers, and official statements all spoke of "the tragedy that occurred at Dunster" or "the two women who died at Harvard." It was as though a tornado had swept through Dunster killing two innocent victims...