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...general and Iraq in particular--certainly Big Government exercises--are projects Republicans tend to be more enthusiastic about. Likewise the criminal process: Republicans tend to want to make more things illegal and to send more people to jail for longer. Republicans also consider themselves more concerned about the moral tone of the country, and they are more disposed toward using the government in trying to improve it. In particular, Republicans think religion needs more help from society, through the government, while Democrats are touchier about the separation of church and state...
...Prize winner Paula Vogel, were featured on a panel. In tune with the bright red and purple décor of the venue—once the site of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre—the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) set a lighthearted and celebratory tone to the night. Director of the OFA Jack Megan commended Faust for her “genuine interest in the arts” in his welcoming speech before inviting her to the stage to deliver opening remarks. Faust conveyed her excitement in seeing the “new spaces...
...successor, Summers. “We can be civil without being simply innocuous,” Rudenstine said. “We can be controversial and provocative without necessarily declaring open season on those who disagree with us. The way we talk to one another, and the tone we use in argument or debate, will often be as important as what we actually...
...particularly powerful interest group, however, and the authors are convinced that it has frequently used its considerable power to bring about results that are, unintentionally, harmful to America’s national interest. As they observe with an almost humorously matter-of-fact tone, “no two countries will always have the same interests. It is just not the way international politics works.” In light of this truism, any lobby that pressures America to act in another country’s interests will by nature put our interests second.In fact, as the authors make clear...
Deep within the bowels of the building at 10 Holyoke Street dangles a cardboard poster bearing the words, “Danger: Live Steam!” Set among gently whirring machinery and a maze of gleaming white pipes, the excitement of the sign’s tone is a much more apt description of what is going on upstairs...