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...answers. Why did the South vote for a Republican “cowboy” President in 2000 and again in 2004? Because of Reconstruction. Why is affirmative action still a hotly contested issue today? Reconstruction again. Why did America in the 80s favor Reganomics? Reconstruction. “This is the book that explains why today’s political map looks like a map of the 1860s,” Richardson writes of “West from Appomattox,” because apparently the pro-Union states are now all Democratic and the current Republican states...
...shooting above the neck, and people got shot in the ear and the Adam’s apple and the forehead, and it was basically just insane.” Fear not: a Wilson death-by-BB-gun seems unlikely, as the brothers have put down their weaponry in favor of intense croquet games, according to the actor.But the “Vacancy” shooting, compared to other Wilson films, wasn’t all fun and games.“We tried to have fun on the set, and for the most part we did. But it?...
Despite leaning on a Republican base to secure electoral victory, the senator remains purposely ambiguous about his party—he required 78 percent of the Republican vote to win in Connecticut this year. Again, Lieberman is able to use his opportunistic politics for personal gain, currying favor with Connecticut’s liberal voters and maximizing his influence as the Democrats’ majority-sealing vote—all without explicitly revealing where he stands. Instead, he should face the truth about his party affiliation and put ethics ahead of his appetite for power...
While the prosecution appealed the decision this January, the SJC ruled in favor of Quinlan yesterday...
...even for those groups not subject to the vagaries of familial favor, the long-term unreliability of funding sources remains an inescapable problem that must be dealt with continuously. In the spring of 2006, the Mission Hill After School Program was shaken to its foundations by a political transition in the Undergraduate Council. Year after year, Mission Hill had received the same amount of money from the UC. Suddenly, the new Financial Committee decreed that Mission Hill would receive zero dollars of funding that semester...