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It is wonderful that there are more student groups on campus and that they are holding more activities and so require more funding. However, if the Undergraduate Council thinks that it is in the average student's best interest to increase our term bill, they are sorely mistaken. If a...
While there were a number of things in the story (News, Nov. 9) about the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) with which I could take exception, one point in particular deserves comment. The statement that "HIID employs virtually no professors from the teaching ranks of the Faculty" conveys the...
The 2000 Senate campaign in my home state of Missouri began almost as soon as the 1998 elections were over. For a year now, everyone has known that Gov. Mel Carnahan, a moderate Democrat, will be challenging the incumbent Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.), a conservative Republican and a favorite...
There were many issues on which Ashcroft could have picked to challenge White, but his choice of the death penalty was especially astute given the state of Missouri politics. Gov. Carnahan is no softie on crime; his administration presided over more executions than any in recent memory. Yet in January...
In his dissent, Judge White argued that the standard applied by the majority was unnecessarily restrictive. Expert testimony on Johnson's sanity had gone both ways, and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, White stated, would allow a new trial or sentencing if there was a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome...