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RIGHT AT THE END Heston's political beliefs followed a familiar trajectory - one that had been traced by a previous SAG president, Ronald Reagan - of liberal Democrat turned conservative Republican. In the early 60s he was a civil rights advocate, and accompanied Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1963 March on Washington. He opposed Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, and in 1968, after Robert Kennedy's assassination, he called for gun controls. He rejected a plea from prominent Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate only because, unlike Reagan when he segued into politics, Heston still...
While Harvard Democrats commended the Republican Club for bringing such an important political figure to campus, they also accused Rove of playing a part in what they said they believed has been a disastrous presidency...
...candidate of the future and a representative of the younger generation,” Zafran said. “He is more in tune with student opinion today, which is why he would consider controlling the cost of higher education as a higher priority.” But Harvard Republican Club President Caleb L. Weatherl ’10 said he disagreed with the survey’s results regarding Obama. “Dealing with the costs of higher education is an important issue that is inextricably linked to the health of our economy,” Weatherl said...
...more than a thousand supporters burst into approving applause and laughter at the mention of their storied downtown watering hole, which had dancing girls back when McCain served in the area as a young pilot. McCain's own knowing smile only added to the moment. Indeed, all week, the Republican nominee-in-waiting has been alluding to the wild days of his younger years, and crowds have been eating...
...month and burnished his biography this week, he is set to return to Washington, D.C., next week for the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, who is commanding the military effort in Iraq. That will be followed by a continued tour of parts of the country not often visited by Republican candidates, like New Orleans and Appalachia, as a way of displaying McCain's maverick character and hope for expanding his party's base of voters...