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Bush used his call for border security to appease those conservatives. But he also tried to cast himself as a reasonable centrist, fighting for what he called a "rational middle ground" between massive amnesty and rounding up more than 10 million illegal immigrants and deporting them. Neither idea is really...
When it first got under way, early in the 20th century, Modernism was an idealistic undertaking. Clean lines and glass-curtain walls were supposed to bring on a more just, more rational world. After World War II, the style drifted from its utopian foundations and was adopted wholesale for corporate...
As a government concentrator at Harvard, first-term School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 campaigned to get the University to withdraw its investments from South Africa. Today, Nolan says her participation in that movement, which led to the Harvard Corporation’s partial divestment from...
"The boycotts and work stoppages make it an issue that is too hot to handle for some," said one Hill aide. "Rational arguments about how to best proceed on policy fall victim to emotional arguments about perception, and then it becomes more difficult to reach a consensus in that kind...
(2 of 2) Sarkozy appears to have no qualms about exploiting such sentiments. "We looked at the numbers," says Manuel Aeschlimann, a deputy in the National Assembly and a key Sarkozy aide. "Sarkozy looks good on urban security, but his profile was less developed on immigration." That is now bound...