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Concretely, this seems to translate into contemplating Core Curriculum reform, making the ranks of tenured Faculty better reflect the composition of the student body and—as Gomes asserts—responding to whimpers from students in a concerned, methodical, “sucking-up” kind...
Next week, Majority Leader Tom Daschle will begin the war to get campaign finance reform through the Senate. His goal is to pass the same campaign finance bill the House approved last week by a 240-189 margin so the two chambers don't have to go into a House-Senate conference to resolve language differences. In past conferences, the Republicans have been able to stall the bill forever and they'll do it again if they have the chance. GOP senators will likely try to filibuster the measure in their chamber, so Daschle is now busy behind the scenes...
...Bush signs campaign finance reform into law, it could have a profound effect on American politics. The bill would ban the national parties from collecting the unlimited and unregulated donations known as "soft money." In the 2000 election, Republicans and Democrats raked in about a half billion dollars in soft money. Under the new bill, big dollars will still talk in political campaigns. The measure raises the amount of "hard money" that can be given to specific candidates, even though it's subject to more regulation and individual limits. But choking off hundreds of millions of unregulated soft dollars that...
...campaign finance reform bill will also cause power shifts in the American political system. For starters "it will roll things back to the type of campaign finance system that was always intended before the advent of soft money," explains Anthony Corrado, a Colby College professor who's written extensively on the history of campaign finance reform. Because they can't simply donate huge sums to the two parties, corporations, labor unions and multi-millionaires will now have a more difficult time buying unlimited influence...
While most judges are not corrupt, skating veterans say fixes have been a problem for years. "All titles are decided ahead of time," said France's Isabelle Duchesnay, a 1992 silver medalist in ice-dancing. If there's an upside to Skategate, it's the new momentum for reform and the raised hopes that all judging will be as clean as the golden performance of Sale and Pelletier...