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...free exchange of ideas has become another innocent victim in the Bush administration’s reckless and shameless drive to the election. In order to appease a narrow but influential group of voters in Florida, the State Department put politics ahead of academic freedom. Showing utter disregard for the interest of American citizens, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher last week justified an act of political censorship with the revealing decree that “Engagement and dialogue is not an end in itself...
...piece that ran on Friday, “the UC’s Dangerous Game” (Op-Ed, Sept. 24), a solid and indisputable point was made (namely, that the Undergraduate Council should avoid reckless and shortsighted spending). But then it went on to say that the council was actually doing so and that a financial calamity was imminent. And that is why the column was disingenuous in spirit as well as effect...
...spent years telling the media shifting stories about efforts to purge or embellish Bush's military records. In February, Burkett told TIME, "I don't have the smoking gun, but there was an effort to make [Bush] look better than he was." He has posted angry and sometimes reckless statements on liberal blogs. CBS's Howard denies that Burkett was interviewed for the Sept. 8 show but won't comment further...
Like so many other students and activists, workers and professionals, I went to New York for the Republican National Convention. I went as a concerned citizen to protest the policies of a political party whose divisive and reckless platform troubles me deeply. And although it was invigorating to participate directly in a democratic process which has become so stilted and stale, I came away from New York with a restless unease about the ability of individuals to effect change in this...
More damaging was Kerry's nonresponse to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who over the summer accused Kerry of misrepresenting his military record in a series of television ads. The Swifties' initial charges were reckless and unfair, but the Kerry camp's political instincts were almost worse. The campaign did ... nothing. Incredibly, it felt the need to conduct focus groups to decide whether to respond to the veterans and, more incredibly, concluded that the public would be turned off if it did. So Kerry tried to ignore the whole thing, making two costly errors at once: he allowed...