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...yearlong quest not to buy a single garment other than underwear. But in March, Bjornsen wrote a post about how two fellow self-deprivers had officially given up and how she wished they would tell her their reasons for doing so. "Why not just cheat and then recommit? Why flat out just call it quits?" one commenter asked. "Was it too hard? Too silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Crunch: Why Extreme Thriftiness Stunts Are the Rage | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...months to hash out language that satisfies the party's often fractious factions. They cite the compact as a contemporary version of the Sharon Statement, a document named for William F. Buckley Jr.'s Connecticut hometown that helped shape the contours of conservatism for the past 50 years. "We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding," the authors write. "The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant." (See 10 promising GOP stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a New Manifesto Woo the Tea Party? | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...hope that President Obama will live up to his campaign rhetoric and recommit the United States “to the rule of law, [rejecting] a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting [the legal system].” Investigating and prosecuting those responsible for the worst abuses of power under the Bush administration is a necessary step toward that restoration...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Renouncing Torture | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...camp there are those who believe the Republican Party must modernize its message to account for changing circumstances. The columnist David Brooks has called these people the "reformers." Against them are the "traditionalists," who believe that Republicans need only recommit themselves to Ronald Reagan's agenda to succeed again. (Read "Can Michael Steele Broaden the Grand Old Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Rush Limbaugh Is Good for the Republicans | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council (UC) would therefore have been wise to take Pilbeam’s advice and recommit its poorly regulated party grants to other causes, such as the DAPA grant program, class-wide social events, and some of our 390 student organizations...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Emma M. Lind, Joanna Naples-mitchell, Juliet S. Samuel, and Matthew L. Sundquist | Title: Cracking Down on Drinking | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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