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Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney outlined the ins and outs of campaigning before a packed Kirkland Junior Common Room yesterday, saying that the key to a successful campaign is defining yourself as a politician before other candidates...
...Republican Romney drew from his experience of running unsuccessfully against Mass. Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 for his seat in 1994 and then winning the governorship in 2002 in a state controlled predominantly by Democrats...
...rights.” The resurgence of campus conservatism is attributed to students “thinking less like activists and more like conservative CEOs.” In an op-ed last spring, a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student accused commencement speaker and Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney of “putting self above the common good” and deviously crafting “a good political message” without “letting something simple as the truth get in the way.” With no sense of irony, the student then suggested...
...Romney is misguided even in the practical aspects of his immoral project. The strict standard of evidence to which he is committed is untenable. While new biological techniques can reduce erroneous convictions, to be sure, the capital punishment system’s limitations are insurmountable. As of September, 55 people have been executed this year nationwide; meanwhile, nine innocent people have been exonerated and released from death row this year, adding to the more than 100 releases since 1976. With thousands on death row, it would be ridiculous to believe that all innocents are spared. Wrongful death is so deeply...
...Even if Romney’s initiative never leads to a regrettable policy change, it will divert precious time and resources from the state’s more important business: creating jobs, improving public education and resolving the budget crisis. Romney would do better to turn his attention toward more pressing concerns and to realize that death is neither a practical nor moral punishment...