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...time: that the authority and autonomy of the College dean will be meaningfully enhanced, empowering her to effect broader institutional change at the College than has been possible in the past.We have every reason to believe that this emerging empowerment of the College’s top administrator will prove to be more than just an illusion. University President Drew G. Faust has already indicated that she would like the Dean of the College to sit at University-wide decanal meetings. Even more promising was Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith’s statement in Tuesday?...
...leaders? There aren't any politicians - Democrat or Republican - willing to speak truth on this. Instead, politicians compete to prove themselves more draconian than thou, to embrace America's most profound and enduring policy failure...
...jabs at the media gave her a focus and energy she lacked through Obama's long string of February victories. The battle fired up her supporters, it offered an explanation for her losses, and it may have inspired some journalists to turn up the heat on her opponent to prove their fairness. (It didn't help that in the days before Texas and Ohio, he responded to that heat with a surprising lack of aplomb.) Obama stopped rising in the polls. Clinton stopped falling. The latest Gallup tracking poll once again has the race a dead heat...
Nutter, meanwhile, admits that Obama's base seems more strongly enthusiastic than Clinton's, but he said the experience and political muscle of the New York Senator's base may prove stronger. Obama's organization "certainly has to be respected," he told TIME, but the key is "how you translate that into on-the-ground troops that know how to run elections and get people to come out to the polls. It's one thing to have events and rallies and be moved by stirring oratory; it's another that people know you and are motivated to come...
...micro-targeting, he can help shore up some wavering constituencies. To the extent McCain has trouble turning out the conservative base that still doesn't trust him on sanctity of life issues like stem cell research, Bush may be able to help. He may also prove useful in mobilizing some otherwise despondent conservatives who care particularly about judicial appointments and the courts. "One of the most important things Bush will be remembered for is the fact that he put two justices on the Supreme Court who embrace a more textualist understanding of the constitution," says Leonard Leo, national co-chair...