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...Harvard’s area studies centers refuse to accept this oversight, they will lose valuable resources; but accepting the authority of an independent, partisan review board would have even graver consequences. Harvard faculty in area studies might even leave rather than subject themselves to political manipulation or coercion...
...left, right or center should lay aside differences in ideology and defend academic freedom, a tenet that we all support. Write your senator to explain how this proposal hampers academics and hurts the nation. If it becomes enacted as law, another American tradition will have been destroyed by petty partisan rivalries...
...home, Bush was able to build a bi-partisan coalition for his first tax cut, but his push for more breaks and the reappearance of record deficits have reignited fiscal debates that had quieted during the fat years of budget surpluses. As the economy appears to be recovering, Bush's supporters credit his aggressive tax-cutting agenda and have called for more of the same. Opponents say Bush has starved vital programs and left no money to reform health care or entitlements. "He came to office preaching the virtues of having a balanced budget and running [a professional government]," says...
This American cacophony is not unprecedented--see Father Charles Coughlin in the '30s, or the partisan free-for-all of the early Republic. Nor is it all bad. Politics has always been a mud fight--better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. And even the anger industry sometimes recognizes such a thing as going too far. MSNBC fired aptly named right-wing host Michael Savage this year after he told a gay caller, "You should only get AIDS...
...media, in which newspapers and news programs are openly left-or right-wing. You watch the Glass Half Full Channel, I watch the Glass Half Empty Channel and everyone's happy. But we're not Europeans: we can't simply light up a Gauloise, unfold a copy of our partisan newspaper and jadedly admit that bias is inevitable--c'est la guerre! Boy-Scoutishly, we feel this is wrong, cynical, corruptly Old World. We need a fig leaf. Our news must call itself "unfiltered" or "fair and balanced." It must flatter both our world view and our belief...