Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...care deeply about civic renewal in this country, and since that is not a purely partisan issue, I'm glad to speak with leaders of either party," writes Putnam in an e-mail message. "On the other hand, I have no intention of leaving Harvard for any full-time position. I can't imagine a better job than the one I have...
...first volume of Schlesinger's memoirs, "A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950" (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T. S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/ Appeasing long forgotten wars...
...only kind of public treatment of this issue since the outbreak of violence over a month ago has been a series of highly partisan rallies/vigils sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). While these groups might pretend that they encourage open dialogue, their behavior suggests they want anything but. Rather than solicit other opinions they have polarized the issues. By holding separate vigils to mourn the dead and organizing competing rallies to assert their own opinions, these two groups have drawn a bold line between their two sides. Debate consists of yelling back...
...executions. The reports received increased attention given that Texas Gov. George W. Bush is a candidate for the presidency and an outspoken defender of the death penalty. Yet it is unfortunate that the reports emerged in such a politically charged atmosphere, where they were liable to be interpreted as partisan attacks rather than actual calls for reform. The death penalty system in Texas--and across the nation--is broken, and regardless of the political winds, there is an urgent need to end the assembly line of executions...
...Republicans figure they've got a trump card: Bush. Not only is he apparently a compassionate guy, he's running for president - and, apparently, winning - on the very theme of ending partisan standoffs. So how could one more bickerfest, one that could last right up until the election, hurt the Republicans in November when one of their own is coming right in to soothe the savage beasts? The logic: Those who side with Republicans will turn out to elect them. Those who want to end the strife will turn out for Bush, and vote Republican. How can they lose...