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In the wake of the "approval rating" president, we are left with a way of thinking that has taken over the very language we use to discuss the presidency. The term "approval rating" itself lends to wishy-washy politics, and yet our foremost priority in gauging actions taken by the...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Playing the Politics of Re-Election | 8/3/1993 | See Source »

One source of concern is the Clinton Administration, which many on Wall Street now regard with disdain. Investors fret that Clinton's proposed tax hikes and forthcoming plans to finance health-care reform would slow the economy, squeeze corporate profits and thereby bring stock prices down. At the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Will the Bull Run? | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

But it was a wishy-washy beginning. Epps basically told us what we already know: that campus race relations are OK, but not great; that race relations programs are largely reactive; that students need to communicate better.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Epps Has Yet to Shine | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

When it comes to the housing lottery, it is clear that Harvard hasn't really known what it wants. Why, otherwise, would it have adopted such a wishy-washy system of assigning housing to first-year students? Since the current program of nonordered choice is embarrassingly ineffective in curtailing the...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Compromise--Randomize | 12/2/1992 | See Source »

The government's policy of institutional discrimination against gays in the army is wrong and the staff correctly admonishes the faculty committee for stalling on cutting ties with ROTC and for making wish-washy statements about Harvard's connection with the program.

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: What Else Can They Do? | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

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