Word: viewpoints
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...hero, ingrate, revolutionary. Folks around Capitol Hill called Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords a lot of things this year, but as of May 24 there's one thing they couldn't call him: Republican. Jeffords' sudden switch to independent--he saw the G.O.P. moving too far right of his moderate viewpoint--ended the Republican Party's control of Congress. "Democrats got to set the agenda instead of reacting to a Republican President," says a senior Senate Democratic aide. "That is a huge change...
...cover 2002?" I can still hear his answer, although in my memory it's set to choral music: "Nobody. Would you like to do it?" And, just to make sure he didn't forget his offer, one of the first pieces I wrote for the magazine was a Viewpoint at the end of France '98. Looking ahead to Asia's first World Cup, I made three predictions at that time...
...says. He admits that “At parties, when people find out I am the editor the Salient, there are always lots of groans...but as a writer, I find being a conservative a liberating thing because you are the only one saying something from that viewpoint...
Despite the blaze of controversy that invariably follows him, Douthat prefers to take a philosophical, somewhat detached viewpoint. “I regard myself as a conservative in the aesthetic sense,”he muses. Expanding on this, Douthart tells how, in a creative writing class at Harvard, he wrote a novella about a student who was “allergic to technology—he ended up having to type his essays on a manual typewriter, and fell into this collection of people soured with modernity.” Douthat admits that, like his protagonist, he possesses...
Cambridge resident Ellen Aaronson offered an opposing viewpoint, proposing that the committee “not invent a new system” and instead make schools more attractive by renovating them...