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...wave of swelling and ever-more violent attempts at "censorship" among student groups. Let the University fulfill its obligation to impartially administer its rules and protect the rights of all student groups, and so avert an inevitable and pernicious collapse from protected free speech into a campus-wide brawl in which vandalism and personal threats are the encouraged modes of expressing disagreement. Tung Le '96 Press Secretary, AALARM Harvard
...state judge has ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...
...informality, both teams took this game pretty seriously. The final was what sportswriters term "penalty-marred" and even included a bench-clearing brawl...
Whatever the outcome of the coming brawl, no reform will be cost-free. "To get anything," says a Clinton aide, "we're going to have to agree to some goodies." The most likely trade-off will involve government-mandated low rates for political advertising on television. And at the end of the day, the huge problem of "soft" money will undoubtedly survive. Wealthy donors and PACs will probably still be able to give large sums to political parties, which have been brilliant at finding legal ways to support individual candidates. The bottom line is not hopeful: unless Clinton really pushes...
That Bush knows the jig is up seemed evident in the second presidential debate last week -- a forum that resembled a teach-in rather than a brawl. Scripted to strike again at Clinton's character, Bush clearly didn't relish the role. Swatted down by Clinton, who wouldn't play, and then by the moderator and the audience, Bush avoided pressing his charge that Clinton's demonstrating against the Vietnam War while studying abroad should be received as a disqualifying act. Experience shows that whenever Bush says something like, "That's what I feel passionately about" (as he added...