Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft tried to force the Harvard professor to leave the position, alleging that he is a "partisan of Netscape" with "clear bias" against Microsoft...
...negotiators in Japan to finish their work last week before declaring the deal dead. "If they come back and think we're going to go along with what they're doing in Kyoto, they've got another think coming," Lott said. That was by no means a strictly partisan assessment. Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, who backs the deal, publicly urged the Administration to hold off submitting it to the Senate until at least...
...things like fast track trade legislation just don't spark political passions. Moderates read the papers and vote, but too often remain on the sidelines as key debates are taking place. We live in a country of Crossfires, in which public discourse is harshly split. This fall, with bitter, partisan campaign finance investigations and the almost comical obstructionism of numerous presidential appointments, the inepitude of an overly partisan government has become painstakingly clear...
That said, there is truth to some of the arguments made by students on both sides. PBHA should never become a partisan organization. Our internal policy of not officially endorsing political issues, candidates or causes goes part of the way toward preventing this tendency, but it is essential that we continue to provide support for a spectrum of groups. And there certainly is room within PBHA both for programs that endorse activism and for older programs that help volunteers think more reflectively about the forces they see at work through their programs. Reflection programs held during the summer, where students...
...asked me to read this essay of names. Today, I understand why. It has nothing to do with the names or the theories behind those names. It has everything to do with the concept of wrestling with truths and not rushing to definite conclusions or accepting utopian visions and partisan platforms. The concept of systematic perfection, so central to the purposes of Gov 10, Ec 10 and Social Studies 10, is a false messiah. The best that can be learned from the ideas of political or moral reasoning offered in these courses are insights, not whole worlds. The solutions...