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WE TAIWANESE HAVE WORKED FOR FOUR decades toward the goal of a free, democratic and independent Taiwan [World, March 25] and have just made a remarkable transition to an open and democratic society. We are ready to join the world community, but we hear no words of welcome. Why not...
The numerous break-ins last week prompted the Freshman Dean's Office to install locks on bathroom doors and the Harvard Police to pledge to arrest, rather than warn, any trespassers in the first-year dormitory.
At issue is whether each state's delegates have to obey the will of their voters. Some delegates are theoretically free-lancers: Ohio's delegates must sign a pledge for their preferred contender, but party rules state that "they are not legally bound to vote for that candidate at the...
Those who stoop in New Hampshire often conquer, but the contortions have left the winners aching long after. In 1988 George Bush promised no new taxes, and Bob Dole fatally refused; two years later Bush ripped his party apart when he abandoned his pledge. In 1992 Bill Clinton promised a...
Early on in this campaign, Bob Dole decided that he would rather be to the right than be president. He backed off from his lifetime of positions on affirmative action, rejected a donation from gay Republicans and signed the same nefarious New Hampshire anti-tax pledge that he had forthrightly...