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...People who are still wary of Obama’s ability to protect Israel need look no further than some of the people who have praised him. After meeting with Obama, David Horowitz, the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, wrote that Obama “knew precisely what he wanted to say about the most intricate issues confronting and concerning Israel.” Horowitz contrasted this in his description of McCain, who he said “looked to [Senator Joe] Lieberman several times for reassurance on his answers and seemed a little flummoxed...
...personally will feel disappointed, frustrated, hurt. I’ll conclude that a fabulous opportunity has been lost. I’ll believe that American voters have made a huge mistake,” Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy wrote in a letter printed in The Washington Post on Sept. 14. “And I’ll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice—not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike...
...membership. Leading up to the election, the BSA has been politically active on campus and off, canvassing in New Hampshire and hosting viewings of the presidential debates. Turner added that the enthusiasm was not just because of Obama’s race, saying that the senator ran a post-racial campaign...
...election predicted that Bradley would emerge victorious. But when all of the ballots were finally counted, the pollsters were proven wrong—fewer white voters had actually cast their ballots for Bradley than polling had anticipated. Daniel J. Hopkins ’00, a post-graduate fellow in government and social studies, said that the “Bradley effect” is “a systematic difference between how black candidates poll before the election and how they perform in the election itself.” But Hopkins said that the Bradley effect is unlikely to play...
...group of experts and scholars with wide-ranging expertise came to Cambridge yesterday to participate in a two-day conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on post colonial war. Day one of the conference, which was yesterday, focused on the relationship between the nature of the colonial regime and the wars that followed. Three panels explored cultural differences and colonial objectives that led to violent uprisings and eventual resolutions. Each speaker presented a specific conflict ranging from the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to the adoption of Aryan nationalism in Sri Lanka. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor S. Ratnajeevan...