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...delegates of candidates who campaign in rule-breaking states. Few believe the threats. Once chosen, the candidates control the conventions, and none will want to offend key swing states like Florida and New Hampshire. So no one can say where the rush to be first will stop. Some reform ideas are on the table, including rotating first-in-the-nation honors and grouping primaries by region, but there's little political will to make them happen. "We've got pretty much anarchy," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute...
Interim University President Derek C. Bok opened a University-wide dialogue on calendar reform in an e-mail to all members of the University yesterday evening, following an intense month of campaigning by Undergraduate Council (UC) leaders...
...recently put together a “declaration of grievances,” which accuses the administration of “restricting discussion” about calendar reform, but Petersen said that Bok’s e-mail represented “a watershed moment for the undergraduate call for calendar reform...
...were storming the halls of the nation’s universities, their right-wing counterparts were trying to get good old boys like Barry Goldwater elected. The reason for that sort of discrepancy is largely that conservative values tend to be associated with traditionalism, and most forms of conservative reform can occur easily within a governmental framework. Typically, therefore, activism does not go hand-in-hand with conservatism...
...Alem?n, despite his millions, comes from a humble background. And he has nothing but disdain for the right-wing reform efforts of Liberal dissident Eduardo Montealegre, a Harvard-educated, U.S.-backed former banker who he refers...