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...Kwong believes that Giuliani can cut through partisan political divides—particularly at Harvard. “He’s the best candidate to close the liberal and conservative gap that we have on campus, especially on this campus where people are socially liberal and fiscally conservative,” Kwong says over lunch in the Lowell House dining hall...
...site that will be one-stop-shopping for youth political activism,” said Leach. “For people to fully participate in the democracy, it is mandatory for them to take part in the electoral process.” The site, novotenovoice.com, offers links to partisan, non-partisan, and voter registration Web sites. “The goal is to make Harvard the leadership institution in America on youth voting,” Leach said. “The IOP is the vehicle, using very innovative techniques that have never been used before...
...security. “You present the facts, but you [should] also say that there could be a better world out there,” she said. Lecturer Elaine Kamarck, who moderated, praised Kanter’s book as a fresh look at America and a departure from the partisan tone of today’s politics. The book outlines six steps the country needs to take in order to return to its core values of equality and opportunity, Kamarck said. But other panelists questioned whether optimism is likely to promote change. David Gergen, the director of the Kennedy School?...
...warming is too important to be left to the environmentalists - it's a national security issue, an economic issue, even a moral issue. That's the kind of language that can appeal not only to traditional greens but to Republicans, and make climate change a national crusade, not a partisan one. "The barriers are breaking down on this issue," says former Sen. Gary Hart, another senior member of PCAP. "This will require real leadership by Republicans and Democrats alike...
...native Elizabeth Hardwick was born in the wrong region for someone who aspired to be a "New York Jewish intellectual." So she moved north and got a Ph.D. at Columbia. In 1945 she drew comparisons to Eudora Welty with her first novel, The Ghostly Lover. After writing for the Partisan Review, though, Hardwick became better known as a critic, co-founding the highbrow New York Review of Books in 1964 and producing such collections as Seduction and Betrayal, now standard reading for the study of women in fiction. Hardwick...