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...answer is unclear. Despite attempts this week to obtain a rationale from Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ‘71 for his decision to only partially repeal the ban, Gross’ office did not provide an explanation of its recent actions. They referred all requests on the subject to Lewis. Last week, we asked University President Lawrence H. Summers about the alcohol restrictions for Harvard-Yale, and he told us that Harvard was simply attempting to comply with the laws of the state of Massachusetts and abide by the rules set in place by the Boston...
...Point: Widely criticized for lobbying for repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act (preventing merger of banking, securities and insurance companies) as Secretary of Treasury while accepting cushy position at Citigroup. Nader blacklisted...
...mortgaging of the environment in deference to corporate interests. And based on Bush’s nominees for federal appeals courts, we shudder to think how Bush’s Supreme Court nominees would alter the social landscape of this country—starting with a repeal of Roe v. Wade—for the decades to come...
...regular voluntary member of the same rank and division of the armed forces. It is this section that dictates that qualifications for deferment be determined by the Director of the Department of Defense-independent Selective Service System. It is the section that gives Congress the explicit power to repeal or eliminate active service for those inducted into the armed forces. In other words, it contains every protection and compensation related to mandatory national service...
...search for their personal truths online; but the political class also helped peel people apart. Both parties redrew districts to be more politically homogeneous, marginalized their centrists, elevated their flamethrowers, viewed with suspicion anyone who sounded temperate or reached across the aisle. At the same time, the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which ended mandatory balanced coverage of politics, gave birth to talk radio, and the television universe splintered between the old networks and the new culture of cable gladiators in which opinion was more entertaining than information and cheaper to produce as well. In the face...