Word: whole
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Living Wage ("I have never felt that the old barter economy, when wages in the form of sheep and goats were in fact 'living,' is something we should return to," he says) to a termbill fee increase ("Increasing it to $50 smacks of tokenism," he claims, suggesting that the whole of each student's yearly tuition go directly to the council...
...definite vision for the U.C…. He criticizes the council as a whole if they don't have the same vision, and that can alienate people sometimes," says Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01, a fellow Eliot House council member. "He is a person with strong viewpoints. He will express those viewpoints in any context--not just when it's the best way to unite people and get things done...
...funny thing about McCain's story is that it has always worked better on other people than it has worked on him. The whole hero mantle, he claims, makes his skin crawl. That may be carefully calculated modesty, but it may also reflect a nagging problem. "It doesn't take a lot of talent," he says, every chance he gets, "to intercept a surface-to-air missile with your own airplane." And yet that failure as a pilot meant that he joined the truly tiny group of men who returned home from a reviled war and were welcomed with parades...
...receiving from defense contractors, McCain accused him of running "one of the most sloppy and dirty campaigns in Arizona's history." But all the while, he was chasing much needed campaign cash, just like any other pol. "I think he brushed up against it," says Clarke of the whole influence-peddling swamp, "and the horror of brushing up against it inspired him to become the reformer...
...desperate bid to win back his strength and standing. But a funny thing happened on the way to his deathbed conversion: he really converted. By 1994 he was calling Democrat Russ Feingold, arguably the least powerful man in the Senate, and proposing that they join forces to reinvent the whole way money worked in politics. No pac money. Free TV. No soft money. It was a crusade that was guaranteed to lose friends and alienate people, especially the ones he would need if he ever wanted to get anything else done...