There was a time when President Bush could be forgiven. On the face of things, he wanted to do something good for this country, preaching in the 2000 campaign the virtues of modesty in world affairs and compassionate conservatism at home.
For the sake of formality, let's review some facts. Across the world, thousands of children die daily from hunger and preventable diseases.
In the best of all possible worlds, colleges and universities would give students a break in the middle of the fall semester so that students could have the option of voting at home.We can easily imagine the benefits of such an "election break." First, students would not be compelled to choose between voting by absentee ballot and registering outside their home state.
Transport yourself, if you will, back to a time when hippies roamed the earth, Richard Nixon occupied the Oval Office, and perhaps most impossibly, our parents were our age.
The history of the American national security establishment is marked by a procession of changing paradigms.
For the past couple of months in lectures, professors have been slyly dropping hints about their views on the presidential candidates and the electoral process.
The email came in from an aghast libertarian. "Hath hell frozen over" she inquired? After all, it seemed that Professor Robert "Robbie" George, part-hero, part-idol and assuredly the source of much of the conservative momentum here on campus, had declared his support for Senator Kerry in the race for the presidency.
The difference between the two candidates' plans to win the war on terrorism in this election is simple: Kerry's plan makes sense, and Bush's doesn't.The first part of Bush's strategy seems to be getting in the way of reform.
I'm voting for Ralph Nader in a swing state come November, and it has nothing to do with disliking the two-party (a.k.a.
When I was six, my classmates tormented me for looking like a "Chink" and having a "lollipop head." One evening I tiptoed barefoot across the kitchen floor in my Pound Puppies nightgown and slowly removed the scissors, the ones too sharp for homework, from the drawer.
In late September, Registrar Joseph Greenberg sent students an email to students letting them know that each student's quintile rank for academic performance within their class would become available alongside other information on the "My Academic Record" feature of the registrar's webpage.
In this year's presidential race, polls reported in the news can be very confusing. Every day we hear about national and state polls showing Bush ahead, Kerry ahead or one candidate surging and overtaking the other.
These days I hear but infrequently the sourly euphonic maxim that was ubiquitous in my early days in the academic profession: "Publish or perish!" This meant, of course, that for a young professor scholarly publication was the single absolute prerequisite for achieving a permanent academic appointment, alias "getting tenure." The reason I hear it less frequently these days is not that there has been a measurable relaxation of professional expectations.
I don't mean to namedrop, but P. Diddy is after me.In NYC last weekend, all the midtown buildings were rimed with portraits of Mr. Combs demanding that I, on penalty of death, vote.The ubiquitous "VOTE OR DIE!" ultimatum is part of Mr. Combs's "Citizen Change" campaign.
Regarding Nader '55 discusses flaws of two-party system (Oct.
Regarding 'Bogle '51 led Vanguard Group to success based on principles developed in his senior thesis' (Oct.
