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...Doing Unto Others Joe Klein's column about Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee served up an excellent snapshot of today's Republican way of thinking [March 26]. Republicans give tax breaks to oil companies that pocket record profits but scoff at a candidate who looks out for his fellow citizens. Honest Abe must spin in his grave every time the G.O.P. refers to itself as the party of Lincoln. Huckabee, unfortunately, has little chance of getting the nomination with his do-unto-others mentality. That kind of thinking just doesn't pass muster in today's Republican Party. Mark McKay, PASCOAG...
...Klein's column about Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee served up an excellent snapshot of today's Republican way of thinking [March 26]. Republicans give tax breaks to oil companies that pocket record profits but scoff at a candidate who looks out for his fellow citizens. Honest Abe must spin in his grave every time the G.O.P. refers to itself as the party of Lincoln. Huckabee has little chance of getting the nomination with his do-unto-others mentality. That kind of thinking just doesn't pass muster in today's Republican Party. Mark McKay, PASCOAG...
...practical needs. Any TF who is not evaluated is not eligible for Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, and will not be eligible for the new Derek C. Bok Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Undergraduates. TFs who happen to teach under professors who scoff at students evaluating them are unfairly excluded from these distinctions, which now—thanks to a recent gift to the University—include cash prizes...
Putin, says Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who is now a maverick Duma deputy, is known for keeping score and for a long memory. So the idea that he would want an infuriating gadfly like Litvinenko to disappear is not beyond reason. But the President's defenders scoff at the idea that he might have been involved in Litvinenko's death. Putin, they say, had no need to get rid of Litvinenko; the exile was an irrelevant crank. Milton Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts...
...Smoke and mirrors, scoff the Democrats, who believe they are riding a broad and ferocious wave that all but guarantees that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will be Speaker, and not in a squeaker: "1 Day to Victory!" says the Web page of the Democratic Congressional Committee...