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...Given the fact that the union leadership was not really playing a constructive role on the Harvard campus...I think that students stepped into that vacuum,” says Libby Devlin, director of higher education for SEIU Local 254. “The leadership role was critical to the success of the campaign and was a key reason why the workers have now stepped up and taken over their organization...
...apathy that stems from this absence of real debate, from the reluctance to engage ideas, creates not so much a “center” as a vacuum. Positions are chosen, not because they are believed in, but because they are politically comfortable. Perhaps this is why the most active voices in national politics today seem to arise from the radical fringe, from the Christian Coalition or the people in turtle suits—those who show “commitment” and hold Truth on their side. The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full...
...even as the Palestinians battle over internal reform and the Israelis lock horns over the shape and timetable of a final political settlement, the security vacuum threatens to eclipse all of those discussions. Indeed, the continued potential for terror attacks inside Israel and for a large-scale IDF retaliation suggests that the current calm may simply be the lull before the next storm...
...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...Four wasted years" --"Moral vacuum" --"Rampant favoritism" --"Diploma mill" --"Hopelessly ill equipped" --"Spoiled brats...