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...everyone else's, has snapped away from domestic policy and toward the war on terror. There are domestic issues on the table, says Thurber, but they are evergreen, high profile bills, like Medicare reform and bankruptcy protection measures. Issues, in other words, that directly affect this administration, says Susan Tolchin, professor of public policy and an expert on elections at George Mason University. "This is not an issue that has hurt Republicans so far," says Tolchin. "Look at what happened in Florida last week - the White House couldn't care less which Democrat runs against Jeb Bush. So there...
...thorny mess of election reform, ironically, seems to inflame voters less than questions of personal health or economic security. "If election reform doesn't pass in time to affect 2004," says Tolchin, "the vast majority of the public will just scratch their heads and move on. There's just no critical mass pushing for election reform...
...Those decisions are influenced heavily by established precedent according to Benjamin D. Tolchin ’01, who served as the undergraduate representative on the ASCR for the past two years after being selected by the Undergraduate Council...
...recipients of the Hoopes Prize, all seniors, are Judith Batalion, Lauren K. Brozovich, Aaron D. Goldberg, Susannah L. Hollister, Jie Li, Priya H. Patel, Michael H. Tang and Benjamin D. Tolchin of Adams House; Elizabeth D. Chao, Jeremy U. Gaw, Charles C. Lin, Benjamin J. Morgan, Wesley T.W. Shih and Blythe Yee of Cabot House; Andreea S. Balan, Long Cai, Isabel de Sola, Grace Kao, Ciprian Manolescu, Pawel M. Nowak and Shauna L. Shames of Currier House...
...intuition is that there are a lot worse things going on in the companies Harvard invests in," Tolchin says. "Companies are involved in what seems to me to be pretty shady labor practices that are more ethically troubling to me than gambling...