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...maybe that analysis is overly academic. Dartmouth ran roughshod over the Crimson, and Harvard stood idly by and let it happen. These were two Ivy opponents, and the two are smart enough to know what needs to be done. It might simply be a matter of determination and execution...
...Moore repeats this theme relentlessly, riding roughshod over dozens of helpless front desk PR agents whom he harasses in his 90-minute film. Structured around the seedy corporate book tour and Moore's Downsize This!, interspersed with discontinuous side trips to local, downsizing Fortune 500 companies, The Big One wears Moore's economics thin. He asks the same questions over and over. Moore bullies unsuspecting PR men and security guards, apparently forgetting how similar these representatives are to the laid-off workers Moore unquestioningly hugs throughout the movie. When talking to workers, Moore is a Sunday school teacher; when talking...
There's a more subtle game being played out here -- an endgame, in fact, between Starr and the White House. Someone did leak information to the press about prosecutors Bruce Udolf and Mike Emmick's previous records of riding roughshod over defendants' rights. Blumenthal, a master of White House spin, is a plausible suspect. But by bringing his accusation out into the open, Starr risks losing even more public sympathy and congressional support...
After a month-long fracas characterized by lawyers running roughshod over the law, President Clinton finally decided to play the legal game himself. At 4:30 p.m. Friday, assistant White House counsel David Kendall delivered an angry statement announcing his intention to sue Kenneth Starr over deliberate leaks "which violate the fundamental rules of fairness in an investigation like this," Kendall said. "That office is out of control...
...Social Security and Medicare exceptions? Perhaps in other areas of policy, special interests do use large donations to get their way. Consider trade policy, for example. Many analysts believe that narrow, protectionist interests regularly run roughshod over the interest of the public. The public, however, appears to believe otherwise. Polls show a large proportion of Americans are in fact quite sympathetic to protectionism. By 57 percent to 36 percent, for example, Americans oppose additional trade agreements with Latin American countries. And by 54 percent to 34 percent, Americans believe that world trade destroys more jobs in the U.S. than...