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Limiting this phenomenon, perhaps by banning staffers from registering as lobbyists until their member has left Congress, has not been tried, and I cannot predict its effectiveness. But with campaign-based reform faltering, a new method is needed to prevent corporate cash from further eroding our democracy.

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: The Limits of Good Government | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Neither is a traditional hoops powerhouse in a league historically dominated by the “Killer Ps”—Penn and Princeton. Cornell didn’t become the top dog until two years ago, and Harvard hasn’t threatened to take the title...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Red Usurps Yale As Top Rival | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

“I am ‘full up’ with atrocities and horrors,” wrote Roger Casement in a letter to the British Foreign Office in March 1911. Casement, a diplomat and activist, had just returned to London from the Amazon jungle, where he had...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Goodman's Detailed 'Devil' | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

In the same way that details of the violence committed by and against the employees of the Peruvian Amazon Company surfaced slowly in the British press in the three years leading up to the Casement’s 1912 report, Goodman deploys his sources gradually, amassing eyewitness accounts alongside official...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Goodman's Detailed 'Devil' | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

It is important to recognize Casement’s immanence within the imperial system, even as he was enraged by the abuses it engendered, and pointing out this ambivalence would not undermine Casement’s achievement as a campaigner, nor cast doubt on the authenticity of his humanitarian sentiment...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Goodman's Detailed 'Devil' | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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