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...recognize that I am prone to disagree with HRC members on any number of issues. But this should not be one of them—mass deportation or any other form of ethnic cleansing should not be a partisan issue. Such things are not about liberal versus conservative; they are about human decency versus hate. Whether you position yourself on the left, center or right, civility requires that you respect others who look different from you or practice a different faith. This means that you cannot advocate the deportation of a group of people based on their religious faith...
...want to maintain a detachment from current politics [in FAS]—we don’t want to be too partisan,” says Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. “There’s a perception that students at the Kennedy School are more on the liberal-left side of things than [students] here...
DIED. EMILY COURIC, 54, Virginia state senator; of pancreatic cancer; in Charlottesville. Best known countrywide as the older sister of NBC's Today show co-host Katie Couric, she was regarded at home as a principled but not partisan Democrat who shared her sister's peppy charm. "Pancreatic cancer is not, as my sister says, the cancer of choice," Emily said...
...Partisan differences are not necessarily a bad thing. "Bipartisanship is abnormal," House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt says. "We all come here representing different people with different viewpoints, and a big part of our job is to express those viewpoints on the floor of the House...
While self-righteousness is on the rise on Capitol Hill, polls indicate that the public has little stomach for partisan maneuvering at a time of national crisis, which may be why congressional leaders are increasingly hopeful that the next order of business after a stimulus package will be the one act of Congress that can end all the conflict: a resolution to adjourn for the year...