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...asked to explain himself a few days later, Allen said, “I would never want to demean him as an individual. I do apologize if he’s offended by that.” Since Sidarth made clear in interviews that he was offended by the senator??s statements, Allen’s conditional apology (“if he’s offended by that”) sounds insincere and patronizing...
...Evangelicals.” But this isn’t so much about courting “evangelicals” as it is about ending the Democrats’ rejection of religious imagery and ideals. The Network of Spiritual Progressives (led by Rabbi Michael Lerner) more accurately paraphrased the senator??s message: “Obama insists that liberals must stop pushing religious people away and stop demanding that they leave their religious ideas ‘at the door’ when they enter into a liberal or progressive context.” He proclaimed...
...When the bill first reached the floor, Senate Minority Leader Brian P. Lees asked to postpone the vote until this coming Wednesday. Lees wanted to learn more about the bill and fully understand how it would affect private colleges in his First Hampden and Hampshire district, according to the senator??s legal counsel, Daniel J. Connelly. Leading supporters of the bill believe it will pass through the Senate. “No one we’ve talked to has said anything against it, so we’re confident that it will pass,” said...
...this week, the exhausting final club controversy was thrust onto the national stage after Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 severed his ties with the Owl Club. The collective squirming of the eight exclusive clubs’ prospective politicos could be sensed. The senator??s affiliation with the club was questioned late last week by conservatives after Kennedy lambasted Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito for his membership in the conservative group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). Though Kennedy’s disassociation with the Owl was likely motivated by political expedience...
That prompted Kennedy’s conservative critics to seize upon the senator??s Owl ties and to accuse him of hypocrisy...