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...career, John McCain has shown himself willing to put others at risk to advance his career or his causes [Oct. 27]. Like President Bush, he is a person who shoots from the hip, invites conflict and sees compromise as a sign of weakness rather than a path to progress. His impulsiveness has been evident this fall in rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with...
...career, John McCain has shown himself willing to put others at risk to advance his career or his causes [Oct. 27]. Like President Bush, he is a person who shoots from the hip, invites conflict and sees compromise as a sign of weakness rather than a path to progress. His impulsiveness has been evident this fall in rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with...
...progress in Iraq is fragile and easily reversed. And it will be a shame, after going so far, to just turn around and let it collapse, because a collapse in Iraq is not just a collapse in Iraq. It could lead to a Middle East that looks like Iraq now,” Scowcroft said...
...teach to the test, but of letting - or perhaps even encouraging - struggling students to drop out before they can lower average test scores. But Spellings is trying to address this problem with new regulations that will set a uniform graduation rate so that a high school's annual progress will now be measured both by how students perform on standardized tests and by how many of them graduate within four years...
...opinion to every bill sponsor and to provide top-down leadership after ample discussion of an issue has occurred. She has been through this process before, and is now in a position to see that it functions effectively. If she fails to do so, we will see no significant progress in the near future. Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 is a philosophy concentrator in Mather House. He is the president of the Undergraduate Council...