Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to ensure that they'll get in his door. "He commands respect and demands response," says Alan Greenstein, president of the New York State Association of Realtors. "I have access to his office--I call him Al. But I've never felt there was a quid pro quo. Not long ago, I saw him about an issue and told him my views. He told me I was nuts...
...chances of being re-elected, others take heart in polls showing that the public has largely lost interest. Said a White House official: "The American people are beginning to ask, 'Is there any there there?'" Despite Leach's assertion that "the evidence is in" showing a quid pro quo between the Clintons and the McDougals, his House hearings fell short of proving that the Clintons did anything illegal. The President's former business partner, meanwhile, was not shy in admitting that he and Clinton exchanged favors over the years. "So what?" McDougal said over the phone from Little Rock, Arkansas...
...this point I imagine that the advocates of the status quo will strongly object, claiming that such a moral spin on educative processes necessarily subverts academic objectivity. I'll concede immediately that ethnic studies is a necessarily political project--the kind of deep resonances and solidarities that will be built up by such study, both within and between the newly "aware" minorities who learn more about their and other cultures, will be immense. Neo-conservatives argue in reply that such a connection necessarily contaminates the ethnic studies agenda. Advocacy in the class room is not only non-traditional, but unethical...
...great irony here that the neighsayers themselves are making a profoundly political move--in preserving the status quo. As Cass Sunstein notes in his The Partial Constitution, much modern conservative advocacy centers around "taking, as given and as the baseline for decision, the status quo, or what various people and groups now have." This status quo neutrality masquerades as impartiality or objectivity, advancing its objectives all the more insidiously by virtue of its ostensible ideological purity. Thus there is no apolitical foundation from which the ethnic studies advocates wish to displace the current curriculum. Ethnic studies advocates should not shrink...
...take part in religious clubs in high schools. "Students can also pray to themselves," he said, drawing laughter when he added: "Preferably before tests, as I used to do." Social conservatives pledged to continue fighting fora constitutional amendment on school prayer, which would go farther than the status quo by allowing teachers to offer public expressions of faith in schools...