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...will be attending Gen. L. Colin Powell's speech. And I will likely be carrying a sign, expressing my anger with the military's misguided, discriminatory policy toward gays. I might even chant a little...
...plan to protest--and the similar plans that many share--upsets many students, regardless of their opinions on General Colin Powell as Commencement speaker choice. In meetings, editorial columns, letters to The Crimson and dining hall conversations, countless students on either side of the Powell debate have urged us to keep our opinions to ourselves during the Commencement cermonies...
...Colin Powell is a distinguished and respected general, the youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in history and is, of course, the first Black American to hold that position. We join the majority of our fellow students in being honored and delighted to have him as the principal speaker on Commencement Day. Tom Woods, Vice-President Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club Daniel E. Zumpano, President Harvard Conservative Club
...Clinton. A growing number of Americans feel the same moral imperative to act that Wiesel expressed. Would that it were so simple. All week Clinton wrestled with the conflicting advice offered by his foreign-policy makers, themselves divided between the go-slow counsel of Christopher and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell and the more robust preferences of Defense Secretary Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. When the President was asked at his news conference on Friday how he evaluated the options, his body language spoke volumes. He rolled his eyes, taking a deep breath and a long pause...
Clinton came to office with a deserved reputation as a consensus builder. "He tried that right off with the Joint Chiefs over the issue of gays in the military, and got swatted down by Colin Powell and Sam Nunn," says an Administration official. Competing lessons were drawn from that early dustup. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said, "Obviously, a lot more consultation with key players like Nunn" would have helped. Clinton's rhetoric agreed, but his actions since often haven't. "A quote in an article back then still bothers him," says a Clinton aide. "The one where a Senator said...