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Whenever Florida Republican Joe Scarborough encountered House Speaker Newt Gingrich this winter, he found himself thinking of Richard Nixon as rendered by Oliver Stone. In one scene a vehement Pat Nixon goes over to Dick and grabs him by the lapels. "Dick, you want them to love you, but they never will," she says. The conservative sophomore had wanted to tell this story to Newt for months, to convince him that efforts to make friends with moderates and liberals both in Congress and outside were wrongheaded and ill-fated. Finally Scarborough couldn't help himself: every act of Congress seemed...
...premature ideas that this will be one more editorial added to a growing mountain of editorials and essays on affirmative action, randomization and race, I want to reassure you that these words are written only to help foster constructive dialogue and new solutions. All of the criticizing and vehement rhetoric that is volleyed back and forth between those with opposing ideologies at the University will not ameliorate the life of one single American or Harvard student. My aim is not to add further to the background noise that permeates the national and campus debate on race. If this essay helps...
...peace partner. But a clear majority of voters--including many who backed Netanyahu--want negotiations to continue. And they remain prepared for painful territorial concessions, should Arafat finally prove himself a worthy partner. For Netanyahu to reclaim Israel's vanishing center, he will have to overcome the vehement opposition of many of his closest supporters. Should he succeed, he will rescue the country from its greatest danger: its suicidal divisiveness...
...vehement opposition of Cambridge cabbies played a large role in the proposal's defeat...
Despite widespread support among newly-legal students, officials from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) have voiced vehement opposition...