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...other terrorist-sponsoring states in three ways. First, they will claim that divesting will hurt financial returns for Harvard’s endowment, which will limit academic enrichment opportunities for the community. Next they may respond that Harvard’s endowment should not be used as a political tool. Or, as HMC president Jack Meyer told the Crimson last week, divesting from companies may hurt job prospects for Sudanese civilians...
...Obama pushed through a bill requiring police to videotape homicide confessions. Similar bills had failed before. But Obama won over police and lawmakers because he didn't just talk about injustice. He talked about efficient policing, and he noted that videos could also serve as a "powerful tool to convict the guilty." Says New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine: "There's an optimism and lack of anger. There is a reach for a positive framing of even negative issues...
Bitterly divided as the country is, many Kerry supporters instead must simply learn how to function at whatever stage of recovery they can attain. I know plenty of folks who plan to nurse their anti-Bush ire, using it as a motivating tool to work even harder for a Democratic victory next time. Such chronic rage may sound unhealthy--but it did the trick for Newt Gingrich's troops in the wake of Bill Clinton...
...Administration's preferred candidate to run for the Florida seat. With the White House and the national Republican organization--not to mention Florida Governor Jeb Bush--in his corner, Martinez might have run a vigorous but dignified race. Instead, his campaign slung mud early, labeling his primary opponent a tool of the "radical homosexual lobby" (the St. Petersburg Times withdrew its endorsement of Martinez in disgust) and calling the federal agents who seized Cuban refugee Elián González four years ago "armed thugs." Martinez lamely blamed "Young Turks" on his staff for the nastiness...
...Soyinka joined the protest movement to free Nigeria from British rule. Ever since that moment when Soyinka was first introduced to demonstration as a political tool, he has tirelessly campaigned for the spread of human rights and democracy throughout Africa...