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Strategists for other candidates purport to find nothing strange in these political grants of indulgence. Brian Lunde, Paul Simon's campaign manager, says about Jackson, "You don't beat on someone who doesn't threaten you." But Iowa polling data suggest that Jackson is taking some white populist votes that might otherwise have gone to Simon. In similar fashion, a top strategist for George Bush argues, "There is no percentage in directly taking on Robertson unless he takes you on." But Robertson poses a clear threat to Bush: his Fundamentalist faithful have embarrassed the Vice President in the initial political...
...government to relate to national security interests. The third pertains to governmental influence over the content and communication of certain categories of information. In each area the report treats a representative sampling of relevant policies and their implementation as illustrations of the trend under review; it does not purport to cover the entire field, nor to analyze all aspects of each policy. Nevertheless, several tentative conclusions seem warranted...
...psyche out what the professor's political views were, and either purport to agree with them or come out in total opposition. In other words, there was a polarization which students felt limited their ability to explore different options and find their own answers," Williams said...
Forget big fingers and chocolate milk, the rhetorical flashpoints for attacking council incompetence, they distort the enormous lack of commitment that members of the council have made to the undergraduate community that they purport to represent. More than half the members of the body, who are asked to attend fewer than 10 three-hour general meetings and an equally small number of committee meetings each semester couldn't even make it to the most important session of the year...
...charter document, the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR), are fundamentally flawed because they purport to protect the rights of all members of the community but only authorize sanctions against students. Meanwhile, students have no means of redress if their rights are violated by other members of the community who happen to be paid, instead of paying, to be at Harvard...