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...Catholic voters, so the re-emergence of the issue complicates his campaign; he may have co-opted crime, welfare and budget balancing, but he can't turn into a Republican on this subject without losing a key constituency--the women who account for his double-digit lead. In that context, White House officials take comfort in the fact that the Senate will probably sustain the veto without their having to play hardball. "We respect that people have differences on this issue," says an aide. "We're not going out there twisting arms and cutting deals...
Regardless of any labeling one could do, each work, whether plain or vaguely complex, possesses a quiet stubbornness. This perception, when paired with Rabinowitch's play on the act of placing pieces in a certain context, makes the exhibition worth a quick look. But since Rabinowitch seems satisfied to work mainly with the object in relation to its environment and with solid, hot, rolled steel, the human element (barring the observer) sometimes feels lacking. A gay romp round to the nearby portraitures, however, should surely suffice...
...section of the article suggested that incoming sophomores did not feel welcomed by Adams House. We were interviewed by a Crimson reporter for this article and feel that our opinions were severely misrepresented. Both the manner in which the reporter approached us and solicited our opinions and the context in which they were eventually portrayed are inconsistent with ethical journalism...
...reporter came to us with a preconceived assesment of the feelings of incoming sophomores. When our comments failed to agree with his assessment, rather than report this accurately, he placed a quote in a distorted context so it appeared to support his assertions about Adams House. The article suggested that all sophomores felt unwelcome, when in fact several of us in the group he approached explicitly refuted this claim. The article maligned Adams House for not offering welcoming activities soon enough, when in fact the interview was conducted the day before sophomores were even required to be on campus. Everyone...
...what is arguably Wilson's magnum opus, The Truly Disadvantaged, published in 1987, Wilson turned his sharp eye on "the culture of poverty," a term he does not like. Wilson described the problems of the innercity--crime, welfare dependency, drugs--but in the context of even harsher problems like joblessness, racism and oppression...