Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literal face-off Wednesday night, political heavyweights James Carville and Dan Lungren traded barbs about the 2000 elections and partisan politics across the Institute of Politics' (IOP) ARCO forum stage...
Regardless of one's partisan leanings, we at Harvard ought to take special note of Bush's argument for moral education: "Yes, we want our children to be smart and successful, but even more, we want them to be good and kind and decent. Yes, our children must learn how to make a living. But even more, they must learn how to live and what to love...
...Senate's action seemed almost cavalier. Debate over the treaty was short and, at times, crassly partisan. (Even G.O.P. arms-control expert Brent Scowcroft called it "pathetic.") And the vote came just a day after relations between India and Pakistan were further soured by the Islamabad coup...
History repeats itself. In 1918, partisan politics ruined the chances of a successful League of Nations. Its failure as an institution is said to be one of the factors that led to the re-emergence of German power and World War II. Following in the footsteps of Henry Cabot Lodge, Trent Lott and the Senate GOP may have very well stifled one of the world's best hopes to decrease nuclear proliferation...
...down an arms control agreement painstakingly negotiated with Washington?s key allies and adversaries would have been almost unthinkable during the Cold War. Not that the Senate didn?t have the constitutional right to do so, but the global conflict with the Soviets created a political culture in which partisan debates ended at America?s shores, and a respect for the paramountcy of the president?s authority on matters of national security. Not for nothing did the term "president" become interchangeable with "commander in chief...