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DIED. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, 90, fiery Wisconsin Senator who during 31 years in office remained a tenacious critic of Washington's status quo; in Sykesville, Md. Over 19 years, the maverick Democrat, elected in 1957 following the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy, gave more than 3,000 speeches on the floor in support of an international treaty banning genocide until it was finally approved in 1986. He spent little on his campaigns--in his last two elections, he accepted no contributions--and in 1975 instituted Congress's monthly Golden Fleece awards to highlight wasteful spending by the government. Among the winners...
...location in the Yard. Subcommittee members should be especially wary of using group size as a metric, as it is extremely easy to inflate membership numbers.There is no way to placate established student groups who may be displaced by this process other than by maintaining the current, unfair status quo. But McLoughlin and the College must do a better job in the future of communicating with all student groups, including ensuring that they are kept appraised of the latest developments with the construction plans. If student groups knew that Hilles plans are essentially still in flux, their minds would...
...outside his office, associates say. Also, authorities have collected the daily "wrap-ups" that Abramoff required his assistants to provide, including notations of nearly every phone call and appointment, every favor asked and every payment delivered. Scanlon's testimony, however, could be crucial to making any quid pro quo link that may exist between what he and Abramoff gave lawmakers and what the two got from them...
...there, the system needs to be revamped. How? There are a lot of ideas. But nothing’s going to happen until people become discontented with the status quo. And this cannot happen until they understand just how dysfunctional the current system is, and above all, just how great this place could be. It’s really not a pipe dream. Such a system works at Oxbridge and Hogwarts, and when I was at Yale last weekend, I saw it worked wonders there...
...reality is that our institutions are always taking a stance one way or another. When they refuse to do so explicitly, their silence takes a stance for them in favor of the status quo...