Word: unpopularities
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...maxim in Washington, as elsewhere, is to be careful of what you wish for, since the gods may grant it. For Republicans who sought a full-blown impeachment process, the problem is figuring out how to retreat now that voters have made clear how unpopular that crusade is. The post-Gingrich turmoil in the G.O.P. House leadership has created a vacuum on the issue. For Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, who wants to bring things to the fastest possible conclusion, that represents an opportunity to act with a minimum of interference from diehards who still want Clinton's head. There...
Library officials said they were particularly grateful for Loker's gift because the library fund is unpopular among donors...
...space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International Space Station...
...accept the fact of unpopular speech on campus is also to accept the reality of society. As Kors and Silverglate write, "What an astonishing expectation to give to students: the belief that, if they belong to a protected category, they have a right to four years of never being offended...
...have put it best in his 1984 letter: "The principles of free speech require the understanding and support of all segments of the university community. Free speech will not survive in an environment in which many people are indifferent to its existence or hostile to the expression of unpopular thoughts." Let's take Bok's words to heart and be neither indifferent nor hostile to free speech on the Harvard campus...