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Vice-Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee J. Kenneth Blackwell called young Republicans to action at the Harvard Republican Club’s seventh annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday. The formal celebration of Lincoln’s legacy and Republican ideals was held in Eliot Dining Hall, where white tablecloths littered with pennies and a hand-drawn elephant greeted the 150 students in attendance—a record, according to HRC President Colin J. Motley ’10. Past speakers at the event have included conservative activist Star Parker and Michael S. Steele...
...liberal Paul Krugman. “We were looking for a conservative writer,” said New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal. “He has a fresh perspective, and writes from a clear philosophical and ideological point of view. He can be critical of Republican policies.” Atlantic Associate Editor and former Crimson Managing Editor Marc J. Ambinder ’01 met Douthat through The Crimson, where, Douthat “established himself as the premier conservative voice on campus,” said Ambinder. The two continued to work together...
...doubt jockey to claim credit or place blame, but ultimately everyone is looking to the Administration for leadership in this area, and only ideologues will grumble if Obama manages to find a way through it. The President and his team were elected to fix the economy, a senior Republican acknowledges, but the electorate is less clear, he argues, on the rest of the Obama agenda...
...Last June's health-care summit helped spark the closed-door gatherings, which at first involved just six members: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and the committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley of Iowa; Ted Kennedy and the HELP Committee's top Republican, Mike Enzi of Wyoming; and Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care. In recent months Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a top HELP Committee Democrat, was added as Kennedy's understudy as the Massachusetts Democrat...
...called peace dividend and are the hardest hit by the vertiginous decline of the economy. Such places used to be no-go areas for the police and were effectively controlled by paramilitaries. Sinead Kelly, 18, waits for her partner outside a betting shop on Falls Road, a working-class republican stronghold. "It's frightening around here at night," she says. "I can't even walk down the street with my baby; I'm that scared, in case I meet people with drugs." Her startling conclusion: "I would rather have lived in those days when it was the Troubles." Too young...