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...debate surrounding issues like privacy, free speech, racial and religious profiling, and abortion are too often shaped by conservatives, Mikva said. “The dominant forum for discussing these issues at law school campuses is now run by a group with a staunch conservative agenda...
...Sharon, of course, was a staunch opponent of Oslo's "land-for-peace" principles from the get-go, and his latest proposal is a reminder that his idea of peace doesn't really involve ceding land, simply an end to hostilities. But for the Palestinians, the relationship between the two is reversed - their objective is ending the occupation, whether by violent or peaceful means, and a peace agreement only appeals in as much as it offers a mechanism for achieving that goal. Bridging the gulf between those positions may be beyond even Herr Fischer's considerable mediation skills - and that...
...that each side is using the embryos to score points. The left seems to be taking great pleasure in pointing out what they see as philosophical inconsistencies of those on the right who have taken an independent approach to the issue of stem cells. Senator Orrin Hatch, a staunch right-to-lifer, makes a distinction between an embryo in a petri dish and one inside a woman's womb. So does Connie Mack, another committed right-to lifer. They both suggest that embryos outside a woman's uterus are not potential life and can be used for research. "Ha!," those...
...first day of February, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, a staunch opponent of affirmative action and grade inflation alike, announced that he would issue his students two grades-the grade he thinks they deserve and the "inflated grade" that would appear on their Harvard transcript. Students lauded the conservative campus icon-popularly known as Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield-for his change in policy. But when Mansfield blamed the rise of grade inflation in part on the increase in number of black students at the College in the 1970s, most of the applause stopped...
Though his main supporters in SAC were conservatives, Milikowsky describes himself as a "staunch Democrat" and his ideology as a "free-market liberal"--both long-held convictions, he says...