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...prompt, I thought at the time. Though his note struck me as a bit peculiar, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps it was his way of being sweet...

Author: By Lena Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suiting Up for Sex | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...than a curt letter that fails to provide important details.We hope that the University will respect the intentions of those donors who contributed prior to the new policy’s implementation by exempting those funds from the duty. And we urge the University to offer student groups a prompt explanation for the new tax. Only then can students determine whether the tax is justified; without an explanation, it’s just not fair...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Taxation without Explanation | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

Democrats, of course, agree. The G.O.P. has scourged the opposition as the party of cut and run, but that tack is of limited value when the Democratic leadership has reined in calls by members for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and when most Americans no longer support the war. In any case, the Democrats are now playing offense on Iraq. The home page of Diane Farrell, a Democrat seeking to unseat Representative Christopher Shays in Connecticut, features a calculator for the cost of the war in Iraq that updates second by second--$313 billion and counting. In a crucial seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush's Security Pitch May Not Work This Time | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...evidence, facts without analysis or documentation, quotes taken out of context and the scattered testimony of traumatized eyewitnesses. (For what it's worth, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a fact sheet responding to some of the conspiracy theorists' ideas on its website, www.nist.gov. The theories prompt small, reasonable questions that demand answers that are just too large and unreasonable to swallow. Granted, the Pentagon crash site looks odd in photographs. But if the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile, then what happened to American Airlines Flight 77? Where did all the real, documented people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won't Go Away | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...among the Democrats has succeeded in solidifying the party around a single position on the Iraq war, but Pelosi has managed to tame the several dozen House members who call themselves the Out of Iraq caucus. They have wanted the Democratic Party to demand the prompt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But Pelosi has so far convinced them that Murtha, the ex-Marine and veteran lawmaker whose call for a troop withdrawal in November created real debate, should be the party's face for that cause while the others should stay in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Mess with Nancy Pelosi | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

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