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...paper that’s pretty traditional and by-and-large pretty conservative [in its design], you want to show some restraint in using color,” said Ron Reason of Garcia Media, the firm employed by The Crimson to consult on the redesign...
Ultimately, that's where you discover the heroism of the 120,000 soldiers serving in Iraq today--not so much in their battlefield bravery or the firmness of their resolve as in their acceptance of uncertainty and the courage of their restraint. Buxton, the veteran of the first Gulf War, sits on his cot inside the Tomb Raiders' hooch. As he struggles to express his thoughts, it becomes clear that the eloquence lies in his frustration. "There is nobody to shoot back at. That's every soldier's biggest complaint," he says. "But we are not cold-blooded killers...
...read newspapers, so his access to information must be limited. In preparing for the war in Iraq, the Bush team purposefully ignored any views that conflicted with its own. In discussing the federal deficit, does President Bush ever sit down face to face with strong proponents of fiscal restraint? Or is this President isolated? STANLEY GOODMAN Wyckoff...
President Summers also warns in his letter that “the University must exercise considerable restraint when it comes to the prospect of confronting the government through the quintessentially adversarial act of filing a lawsuit.” Yet it was he who recently directed the University to file an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case over affirmative action at the University of Michigan. We believe that allowing the Law School to join FAIR would be no more confrontational. Harvard would not be a party in the FAIR lawsuit, only a member of the organization...
...Democrats, meanwhile, are not helping deficit hawks make their case, having shown few signs of running on fiscal restraint themselves. In fact, last week one presidential contender, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, tried repeatedly to paint the field's putative front runner, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, as a "balanced-budget freak" and to nail him for once wanting to "slow the rate of growth" of Medicare. Dean bobbed and weaved, proving that he too knows there is no political appetite for a candidate who serves up hard choices. The polls don't seem to give him or his competitors...