Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although its importance has waned in the past decade, New Hampshire remains a symbolic test for aspiring presidential candidates. Here the archetypal image of door-to-door campaigning took shape, and here Vice President Al Gore '69 and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley recently rallied for support...
John H. Whitehouse III (Letters, April 12) attributes the gay community's opposition to the return of ROTC to the Harvard campus to "self-righteous arrogance," citing the support by gay students of American troops in Kosovo. White-house is correct in suggesting that gay students overwhelmingly support efforts by the United States military, in addition to supporting their peers in ROTC who have undertaken our national defense as their personal responsibility...
...margin (close to 100 votes, if I remember correctly), but the Senate's concomitant legislation couldn't muster the 60 votes to beat a filibuster, although it did have a majority. Campaign finance is not an "underdog issue," and in the upcoming legislative year it will have even more support and probably will pass...
ROTC at Harvard is not about the "don't ask, don't tell policy," it is about Harvard students--and the message was clear: The council does not support its gay students and can support homophobic institutions on its own campus. I just wish the "student representatives" of Harvard had realized that their actions, while good for ROTC cadets, can threaten gay Harvard students...
John H. Whitehouse III (Letters, April 12) attributes the gay community's opposition to the return of ROTC to the Harvard campus to "self-righteous arrogance", citing the support by gay students of American troops in Kosovo. Whitehouse is correct in suggesting that gay students overwhelmingly support efforts by the United States military, in addition to supporting their peers in ROTC who have undertaken our national defense as their personal responsibility...