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...member asked, “How should we prepare ourself in the case of a Democratic victory?” “The pendulum swings a lot in American politics,” Cellucci said, but he was hopeful that it would not be so extreme as to lose the Republicans the presidency. Asked what issues Republicans should focus on, Cellucci said cutting taxes, fiscal discipline, and regulations that are fair and effective. Motley said Harvard students could work to elect McCain by attending weekly phone bank trips. There will also be a campaign trip going to New Hampshire...
...editors: Re: “Journalists Lose at Harvard,” Op-ed, Sept. 19. I do not understand how Mr. David A. Andelman ‘66 could have read my essay, “The Research Library in the Digital Age,” as an attack on the press and on my own brother, John. John and I were raised to value a free press as the strongest buttress of democracy; and that principle touched us personally, because our father was killed as a correspondent for The New York Times in World...
...More than any individual member on Capitol Hill, no one has more to lose in this debacle than John McCain. By claiming to suspend his campaign and pledging to help bring House Republicans on board, McCain put much of his political capital on the line - to the point that his staff were already claiming credit for the legislative coup Monday morning on the assumption that it would pass. "This is very bad for McCain," said Clyde Wilcox, a government professor at Georgetown University. "So he interrupts his campaign to fly to Washington to deliver a deal, and then cannot deliver...
...like the financial press has swept the story under the rug, certainly. But what we've generally heard are either dire - but very vague - warnings or the general argument that, if credit dries up, that affects loans to businesses and little guys, and people start to lose jobs...
...question to the New York Times' Joe Nocera. I've heard him discuss business news in layman's terms masterfully on NPR for years; if anyone could put this in perspective succinctly, I thought, it would be him. But his answer was yet another of those general explanations - businesses lose access to money, people lose jobs - that avoided that essential question of degree...