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Broad-based elections for chairman would also serve a useful checking function. Candidates for chairman should have to prove themselves beyond a small base of voters, forcing them to campaign on their views and defend their record to the whole undergraduate community...
...Dukakis is the one who should be best able to prove his opponent is out of the mainstream. This summer, working as a research intern for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, I examined hundreds of House of Representatives votes on major issues and the corresponding administration's positions. I found that if Reagan and Bush were in the House of Representatives, they would be among its 10 or 20 most conservative members...
...Moments like this almost redeem the strenuous labors that Brodkey and his readers must suffer through to achieve them. Because of his fascination with autobiographical minutiae, his willingness to spin elaborate riffs on the smallest physical details, Brodkey's proponents regularly compare him to Proust. The analogy may someday prove accurate, but this book does not make the case. Perhaps Party of Animals, which is rumored to be sprawling and multivolumed, will demonstrate Proustian breadth, the ability to evoke an entire, glittering world from a mass of perceptions. For now, the sharpest impression given by Brodkey is of an artist...
Although God might exist, there is no way for Him to prove it to humanity, Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick told an audience of about 150 at Hillel House's weekly Sabbath "table talk" yesterday...
Since God cannot prove His existence, Nozick argued, people should not become frustrated by doubts of faith...