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...role, Rudd was telling radio broadcaster Alan Jones about his plans for the "alternative ministry." "I just want to be systematic, methodical, think it through, talk to my colleagues," Rudd said. "I think that's the right thing to do. John Howard would do the same thing." To vaunt his own authority, Rudd recently convened a national summit on climate change and invited miners, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers to confer. A stunt? Yes. But the coverage helped widen his lead on what Labor argues is the great moral issue...
...sweep would earn more for the Crimson than a playoff spot. It would vaunt Harvard into eighth place and avoid a first round match-up against Clarkson or St. Lawrence...
...sweep would earn more for the Crimson than a playoff spot. It would vaunt Harvard into eighth place and avoid a first round match-up against Clarkson or St. Lawrence...
...them with a bulwark and ongoing network of support in their lives beyond the University. These sacrifices are to be made with no return whatsoever (the Bunting Institute and the Schlesinger Library are already thriving entities); and they are to be made solely in order to allow Harvard to vaunt before the world how much it has done for women--in a kind of belated public spasm of political correctness--by affiliating to itself a "Radcliffe Institute." More materially, these sacrifices are to be made so that Harvard may garner unto itself all alumni/alumnae dollars--it is currently prohibited from...
...debate culminates, it has come to focus primarily on a single dichotomy--"employer mandates"--which liberals vaunt as a benison to be distributed to heretofor hapless American workers, versus "individual mandates" which curmudgeonly conservatives offer as a rear-guard action to stave off the "potentially disastrous consequences" of the above mentioned liberal benison...