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...editor of Cambridge Common, said that part of the motivation for the blogs’ UC election focus was to broaden and clarify the discussion.“There are a group of people who find The Crimson’s coverage fairly superficial and meaningless,” said Golis, who co-created Cambridge Common last year as an alternative to the opinions expressed in The Crimson. “I think that people have got a lot of inside information [from the blogs] on the machinations of campaigns, how they work, a lot of which was unknown...
...able to hold candidates accountable for past missteps, not only for the good of the students, but for the good of the candidates themselves. While previous work for the UC necessarily emerges as a key point in elections, without an official record of voting, this can become a largely meaningless exercise in rhetoric from the various tickets. As it is now, most students have little idea of what their representatives do on the UC. Few students have the time to attend the UC’s meetings, so the UC’s website was correctly envisioned as the most...
...vital that the UC not give money to organizations that choose to rely on artificial constitutional distinctions rather than the choice of its members for the election of its officers. Future suspensions of UC bylaws should be restricted to situations that clearly merit them, lest the bylaws themselves become meaningless...
...attend team meetings, they’d even be on the sideline come Saturday. But they wouldn’t take the field for a single down. Not one, Murphy said.Ever the disciplinarian, Murphy had laudably put his foot down. No rap on the knuckles, no meaningless off-season punishment, no token one-game suspension. A full slate wiped away to send the message that such behavior would not be tolerated, no exceptions, not even for Bryant, arguably the team’s most talented defensive lineman heading into the off-season. It was a classic dose of tough love...
...even engaging in democratic elections. The reason is clear: an honest, passion-free, and inordinate discourse between numerous sects and ethnic and religious groups is a crucial prerequisite for the success of such daunting national tasks. The kind of debate that exists today in Iraq is more like a meaningless argument between grieving widows.For now, the administration’s success in cleaning up the mess it caused in Iraq is contingent upon its success in the delineation of defensible borders for Iraqi cities, towns, and villages to minimize the damage caused by insurgents and terrorists. To achieve that, America...