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...Supreme Court recently voted 5-4 in favor of giving corporations and unions freedom to run campaign ads directly supporting candidates for public office. The reasoning behind the decision is that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech extends to corporations and unions, meaning they should be able to use their resources at will to support their politician of choice. However, we believe that this decision is a blow to democracy, as the voice of corporations will continue to become unfairly loud in the political realm, drowning out the voices of individual citizens...
...which include Henrietta’s Table, Rialto, Noir, and the Regattabar—customers have been given the option of adding a one-time donation to their checks. Customers have so far donated more than $12,000, according to Rebecca H. Fetner, Rialto’s public relations and marketing manager...
Holloway, a D.C. native, was offered the opportunity after her involvement in the D.C. Scholars Program, a program President Barack Obama and the First Lady started last year to award White House internships to D.C. public school students...
...Adbelnasser A. Rashid’s rash criticism of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s visit to Harvard is based on the false pretenses of the Goldstone report—a report that has been called misleading and inimical to peace by such mainstream publications as the Economist and public officials such as Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mr. Rashid’s unquestioning acceptance of this report reveals his anti-Israel bias. While no one would deny that collateral damage occurred on both sides as a result of the Gaza...
Novey also applauded Obama’s promise to support students’ tuition, which he described as “one of the most exciting and overlooked issues.” He noted that Obama’s plan to forgive loans for students entering public service careers was especially relevant and said he personally planned to take advantage of such a program...