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...addition, the IOP hopes to draw new students with a student-led study group called Politics for Dummies, which is limited to Harvard first-year students and aimed at students who have little or no political background...
Here's a little background. John Rocker is the infamous relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who grabbed the national spotlight earlier this year for deriding gays, poking fun at Asians, espousing a distaste for foreigners and calling a black teammate of his a "fat monkey," all in the course of one Sports Illustrated Article...
...through which the country is viewed. Politicians and the press alike evaluated the success of the visit based entirely on its potential effects with regard to nuclear non-proliferation. The wealth of other areas in which Indian and American interests are at odds or intersect were ushered to the background...
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...wait. As Governor of Texas, has Bush practiced what he preaches? What may we look forward to under a President Bush? In fact, five years after Bush became Governor, Texas still does not require criminal background checks at gun shows, and Texas has quite a few of those472 gun shows in 1998. Bush has said in the past that he would support mandatory background checks, yet his own words and their support by 85 percent of Texans have, in five years, resulted in no legislation. The full extent of what he has done in Texas has been to make empty...