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CORRECTION: The April 23 article originally entitled "Students Push for ROTC Credit" incorrectly stated in the headline, sub-headline, and twice in the article text that the Harvard Republican Club was protesting for Harvard ROTC participants to receive course credit for their ROTC classroom work at MIT. In fact, the Republican Club was pushing for "official recognition" of ROTC, which would entail that Harvard use language more accepting of the program in its annually-published student handbook and that the University subsidize cross-registration fees for Harvard students doing their ROTC work at MIT, but not that academic credit...
...essay is its intellectual laziness. Had he consulted a wide range of courses at Harvard alone, he would have found the intellectual content he was looking for. To take one among many of the possibilities, he might have considered my course, “The Theory and Practice of Republican Government,” where dozens of the Federalist Papers are read and studied intensively. In “Bureaucratic Politics: Military, Government, Economic and Social Organizations,” a sampling of decision theory, non-parametric statistics and stochastic modeling is combined with a healthy reading of Alfred Chandler?...
...sure, the historic unpopularity of the Bush Administration has been a convenient foil for Obama. He has also been lucky in his enemies, a reeling Republican Party that lurches from gimmicks to hissy fits, including frequent, unbidden appearances by such unpopular characters as Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, whose rants about everything from Obama's decision to repudiate the torture of enemy combatants to his handshake with Chávez seem both ungracious and unhinged. "We obviously haven't found our voice yet," says Senator Lamar Alexander, one of the more thoughtful GOP leaders. "The American people sent...
...36th day as mayor, Newsom ordered the City Clerk to start marrying same-sex couples, in violation of California law. Newsom made the controversial move against the advice of much of his staff as well as Democrats concerned the action would galvanize the Republican Party. Some 4,000 gay couples tied the knot before the state courts declared the marriages invalid. During the height of the ensuing publicity, Newsom said he received over 1,000 death threats...
...people outside of San Francisco only know two things about Gavin Newson: he supports same-sex marriage and he cheated [with] his best friend's wife. He can fix that, but if he doesn't do it quick, he's going to become a punch line." - Dan Schnur, a Republican consultant, on whether Newsom has a shot at higher office, Time.com...