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Like the hero of a paperback thriller, campaign-finance reform keeps dodging bullets. Legislation meant to clean up the political-money game was almost left for dead last summer, but the Enron scandal revived it again. And last Wednesday evening the bill survived yet another near-death experience, when its backers in the House went head-to-head with one of their most powerful opponents, the National Rifle Association. Republicans, led by Tom DeLay, the majority whip from Sugar Land, Texas, offered a clever "poison pill" amendment that would have exempted gun-rights groups from the bill's limits...
...Committee on College Life (CCL) will likely approve 20 new student groups today, ranging from the Minnesota Club of Harvard to The Harvard Coalition for Drug Policy Reform (THCDPR...
...journalists, Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert Kaiser are at the top of their field, the executive editor and senior correspondent, respectively, for the Washington Paistic practices, part plea for reform and part apology for the profession...
This desire for cultivation of better world citizens, a sentiment Summers has also expressed, relates in a practical sense to initiatives to improve study abroad options and to intiatives to reform the Core. Most feel that students’ ability to study abroad is destined to improve. Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 remarks, “The University has recognized the importance of the cultural immersion that you gain from study abroad...
...send them to jail, anyway? In an effort to learn more about the United States prison system, I decided to pay a visit to renowned prison reform advocate Daniel Mintz. Mintz brought up a number of good points and was very critical of what he referred to as the “prison-industrial complex.” Also, I stole so much shit from this guy. TV, DVD player, microwave, two alarm clock-radios. You name it, I stole it. His kids? I put them up for adoption. I stole...