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...Perhaps “pandering?? to those who like effective government, he also intended to measure the effectiveness of U.S. ambassadors and embassies abroad. Bill Clinton would undoubtedly endorse this approach, since he said at Harvard in 2001 that “almost nobody in the Middle East knows” what the U.S. has done for the Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, that he would tell young people in Kandahar how many Muslims died in the World Trade Center, and that “we have done a lousy job of getting our story...
...right whose views have always been more libertarian than conservative. Fried has, for example, supported keeping abortion services legal. Kennedy pointed not only to the much-debated choice of Palin as the vice-presidential candidate, but also to the “allegations” and “pandering?? of the McCain-Palin campaign as a possible reason for conservatives’ disillusionment with the Republican ticket. “Given the character of the campaign McCain and Palin have waged, it does not surprise me that a person like Charles Fried would be alienated...
According to local political analyst Glenn S. Koocher ’71, the 1982 push to regulate holiday festivities is in keeping with the “typical pandering?? of the city council, which he recently said is governed by a “control mentality” with “no logic or fairness...
...overqualified. Perhaps gullibly, I believe McGrath Lewis when she says that legacy preference is a mere “feather on the scale.” But it’s a feather that looms large in the public imagination. Even The Economist—not known for populist pandering??has charged that under legacy preference policies, “the students in America’s places of higher education are increasingly becoming an oligarchy.” The magazine continues: “This is sad in itself, but even sadder when you consider the extraordinary...
...ever-increasing number of Americans—both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of the population—are becoming unbelievers. In fact, although most Americans happily call themselves Christian, we are fast becoming a godless nation. Religious pandering??from Jimmy Carter’s born-again rhetoric to Bush’s compassionate conservatism—has masked the real story about religion in modern America: the gradual, but inexorable, rise of secularism since World...
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