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Even though we hear more about discothèques than dissertations, the moribund Harvard College Curricular Review champions the value of “international experiences.” In a generally boring and predictable pedagogical shakeup, internationalization has become the one “visionary” plank in the Review’s shaky platform. Indeed, if some form of the current Review proposals pass, the College will continue at least to encourage its students to take a semester off and live in a foreign country...
...example, Nicolais, one of the three candidates for the council presidency, told this writer that a key plank in his platform was making the council “more of a student government and less of a student group,” by modifying the role played by the council to involve more governance, facilitation, and engagement with students. Nicolais said that a fundamental part of his vision for the council was “to bring the council to the campus. We spend so much time in University Hall and not in the Yard...
Decked out dashingly in jodhpurs and flight goggles, Lindbergh runs on a single plank: he will keep the U.S. out of World War II. And he's as good as his word. Once elected, he makes peace with Hitler at a conference in Iceland, fetes German diplomats at the White House and establishes the chillingly plausible Office of American Absorption, a government agency aimed at "encouraging America's religious and national minorities to become further incorporated into the larger society"--in other words, forcibly breaking up Jewish communities and dispersing their members to rural backwaters per the novel's Homestead...
Thus it may come as a bit of a surprise (or not at all) that when Bush rolled out the new central plank in his platform at the Republican National Convention this month—a revamping of the entire federal tax code—he didn’t bother to fill anyone in on the details. It’s too messy. Too inefficient. There are too many corporate loopholes. All true. Trouble is: what does he intend to do about it? Trust us, he said. Re-elect us, and we’ll take care...
...wealthy. No, it’s far better to talk generally about cleaning up a headache-inducing system—about ending corporate loopholes—than to endorse any specific plan. This has Karl Rove’s fingerprints all over it. As long as Bush paints this plank in broad-brush strokes, he’s got a sure winner on his hands...