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After becoming frustrated with what he saw as “fundamentally flawed” policies like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the government??s response to Hurricane Katrina, Woods decided to run for a seat in the U.S. Congress from California’s 10th district...
...would-be Senators can grand stand,” Long alluded to the two central foundations of the campaign: an expression of humor on a campus criticized for its sober, pre-professional seriousness, and also a genuine—albeit satirical—critique of the student government??s shortcomings...
Ahlers said that the school’s leaders pushed for Harvard to participate in the federal government??s Yellow Ribbon program, which provides funds to allow veterans to continue their education...
...Indeed, the American discourse on foreign policy has shown the costs of a focus on supposed morality at the expense of actual consequences. For example, the Bush administration’s refusal to negotiate regularly with the Iranian government, while grounded in a generally sound moral judgment of that government??s character, had the practical effect of allowing the Iranian nuclear program to progress substantially. Insofar as dispassionate factual analysis prevents this sort of moral indignation as policy, it is worth encouraging...
David Luberoff, the executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government??s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and an expert on the city’s transportation system, said that the report’s findings are “serious” and “sobering,” as “the Red Line is a hugely important part of the Boston transportation network...