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...Crimson would prefer a tame, invisible student government, I’m afraid they won’t find one under this leadership. On the other hand, if they hope to see a council that attempts to challenge itself with revolutionary, innovative and, at times rebellious projects, then it seems that their mean-spirited and condescending editorializing will only hinder such efforts, undercutting the council’s goal of maximizing its effectiveness in lobbying the administration for change and improvement. The Undergraduate Council is tackling bigger and bolder initiatives; setting higher standards for ourselves; and witnessing greater success. Obviously...
...administrator, sort of like a First Amendment “what would Jesus do?” He said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter...
...Turks don't believe the Iraqi Kurds' insistence that they don't want a state, only autonomy and cultural rights in a federal Iraq. Turkey fears that those demands are a prelude to a push for full independence. Obviously, even if that's something they'd ultimately prefer, it's not something the Kurds can actually say, because they need U.S. support. And the U.S. won't get the crucial support of Turkey if the outcome of a war would be Kurdish independence in Iraq. So even when asked privately about independence, Kurdish leaders will simply...
Today almost all political campaigns are run by consultants who are paid to exert as much control over the election as possible. Unless they are working for a political outsider, most prefer elections that have very low voter turnout because only people with strong party, union, religious or ideological affiliation go to the polls. These voters are very predictable and are the easiest to control. It is no coincidence that, as political campaigns have become more centered around marketing in the past few decades, voter turnout in the entire population has plunged to all-time lows. The consultants and strategists...
...simply, the petitioners prefer to reduce the complexity of the situation to a cartoon in which Palestinians stand on the side of the angels, which leaves the Jews right where, at an earlier time, many Christian zealots were quite happy to put them, on the side of the demons. If such a simplistic and narrative line is not “anti-Semitic in effect” what...