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...Other candidates’s Internet reputations loom larger-than-life over these platform issues...
...Harvard students still paying tuition when Harvard is seeing multibillion-dollar returns on its endowment?” asks the Facebook group page for Edward “Ned” L. Monahan ’12. The Facebook platform for Seth A. Pearce ’12 proposes “Student oversight on Harvard’s investments and shareholder votes,” as well as “supporting not only students, but also Harvard employees, and the residents of Cambridge and Allston-Brighton...
...Angeles mayoral election: "A progressive 'Good Government' coalition - popularly, and a bit derisively, known as the Goo Goos - had nominated George Alexander, a former city supervisor. "Honest Uncle George" campaigned dressed up as Uncle Sam on a moralistic reform platform that promised to rid the freewheeling city of gamblers, prostitutes, and even the bewilderingly popular blind pig races...
...Democrats are having none of this tale of woe. As far as they're concerned the GOP's platform of deregulation is what caused this problem, and it's a GOP President - however unpopular - who is demanding this fix. They view Boehner's stance with deep suspicion. If enough Republicans did not support the bill, why, they ask, did Republican Senator Bob Bennett and Representative Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the House Banking Committee, stand at the press conference on Thursday announcing the agreement and voice their support? Why wait until a meeting at the White House to throw...
...executive director of Ole Miss's William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, notes that a smattering of groups working against racial strife have sprung up in recent years and that any viable candidate for student-body president must now include race reconciliation as part of his or her platform. Still, Glisson admits that racial tension "is a substantial problem...