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...case last year, a book written by a dead man was probably the most deserving of awards, and I don’t pretend to have a perfect solution. To choose to disqualify anyone based upon extra-literary considerations opens the door for all sorts of petty politicking??something the literary realm definitely needs no more of. However, the case is that, in the cash-strapped world of letters, it is more important than ever that the moneys within are channeled to the warm bodies that can produce the next White Whale and not to skeletons that will...
...representative position this fall, revealed an unwillingness to work through the system.Riley, who worked on SAC last year, says that she decided not to run again because she “got fed up with the Ivory Tower” and the “politicking?? on the UC.She adds that her time away from the UC has given her a unique perspective as “just a student” on what needs to be changed and how best to work with the clubs to improve the social community.The key to improving UC receptiveness, Haddock says...
Surely, such charges coming from a trial lawyer lobby group should be taken with a grain of salt. But whether they come out of sheer special-interest politicking??which would come as no surprise—or simply misguided efforts to curb rising health care expenses, caps on malpractice lawsuits are unfair to the victims and undermine an effective jury system...
...Larson ’05 is right on one point in her recent column (“Glass Ceilings and Hypocrisy,” Nov. 21): “relentless gender politicking?? has overshadowed Carol Moseley Braun’s presidential campaign. However, it is the media, Larson included, that has engaged in this unceasing emphasis on gender. Ambassador Braun has brought her innovative and exciting message for a better America through single-payer health care, sweeping civil rights advances, logical tax policy, and a global, cooperative foreign policy across the country. The media, however, has largely disregarded...
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