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...Department of Homeland Security, would face few obstacles if they wanted to gain access to students’ records. And we’re not talking about government agencies rooting out young terrorists here. The history of surveillance measures in this country shows that such agencies have seldom passed up the chance to snoop on and disrupt the lives of law-abiding citizens...
Harvard students have cultural connections that they could use to establish same-sex relationships as positive—much more subtly than pictures in textbooks ever could. Abstract discussions of politics seldom change people’s positions on issues of sexuality and often produce fiestas of misunderstanding and scorn. It is far more effective to give homosexuality a face. Small things like offhandedly mentioning a friend your mother met while visiting is gay or watching the occasional movie with a positively depicted gay character can go a long way toward eroding the impersonal concept...
Sophomore Michael Berg and freshman Desmond Bryant both played amazingly well this year on the defensive line. Murphy showed a willingness to use young players that is seldom seen in the Ivy League, and the two defensive ends responded, showing an amazing ability to get penetration into opposing offensive lines despite their inexperience...
Historians will have an easy time arguing that the race was always Bush's to lose; he scarcely ever ran behind, from Labor Day on. A country will seldom discharge a Commander in Chief during wartime, particularly one who had sustained a higher level of approval for longer than any modern U.S. President. Economist Ray Fair devised a model that weighs inflation and growth rates, and by his formula, Bush looked on track to win 58% of the popular vote. And he was running against a New England Senator so stiff, he creaked, when no non-Southern Democrat...
...even more bitterly divided, making any legislative agenda hard to achieve. The initial goodwill that produced the No Child Left Behind Act is gone. The post-9/11 sense of national unity that produced the Patriot Act is gone. Bush has recently relied on disciplined party-line votes and seldom even pretended to try to reach a compromise with Democrats. He has admitted that this state of affairs is a disappointment, given his promise to unite and not divide. In an interview with TIME in August, he blamed the rancor on entrenched special interests, as though he were more victim...