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...Secretary, is solidifying her standing by espousing what many in the party leadership consider decidedly un-socialist, practically treasonous ideas. In recent weeks she has advocated a much tougher line on young delinquents. She wants to yank troublesome kids from middle school classes and put them in reform schools; withhold state family allowances from dysfunctional families until they take parenting classes, and even send teenage miscreants to military boot camp. Socialist voters, mindful of the youthful rampages last fall in the poor outlying housing projects and this spring at universities, approve of her tough-love approach by a resounding...
...This April, Harvard announced that it would amend its University-wide non-discrimination policy to protect “gender identity,” responding to student activism for transgender rights. At Commencement 25 years ago, the Class of 1981 marshals distributed letters to graduates pleading with them to withhold donations to the College until the Faculty of Arts and Sciences reversed its refusal to adopt a policy of nondiscrimination toward gay students and faculty.For an institution now noted for its liberal thinking and tolerance, the atmosphere at Harvard then for gay people was ambivalent at best. Although much...
...when Republican Arlen Specter brought up his concerns about the NSA domestic wiretapping program that allows searches without warrants, the President "didn't choose to engage" on the issue, according to the senator. The next day Specter held a press conference in which he said he might seek to withhold funds from the NSA for the searches until the Administration informed Congress more fully about the program...
...Villiers and presidential frontrunner Sarkozy could actually hurt the right's prospects. If Le Pen and Sarkozy were to savage one another ahead of the first round of presidential voting, after all, it could lead embittered backers of whichever candidate doesn't make the run-off to withhold their votes in the second round - or cast them for the probable Socialist finalist out of spite. "In either scenario, the short-term winner of a split is the left," Reyni? says...
...private evaluation of a professor and a book for sale to the entire world. Just as The Crimson had profiled Viswanathan and reviewed “Opal Mehta,” so too did we have the obligation to cover this aspect of the story. For us to withhold what we knew would have been egregiously irresponsible to Viswanathan’s readers, as well as to McCafferty and her readers.That said, we did recognize the uniqueness and sensitivity of the story, and we took special precautions to ensure we handled it as tactfully as possible. Although Viswanathan...