Word: pro
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...past partisan disputes. In some cases, council members harked back to past council scandals and their presidential equivalents. One member, although asked only for his full name and class year, went so far as to identify himself as by house, concentration, hometown, council committee and "leader of the 1998 pro-Impeachment rally." Remember, it has been close to a full year since the Burton impeachment. Additionally, in response to the question "Whose fault is the current lack of a definitive winner?" responses ran the gamut. Geoffrey Starks '02 responded, "all fault, in all ways, lies with Republicans, just kidding...
...tide against school vouchers appears to be building: On Election Day, voters in California and Michigan overwhelmingly defeated voucher propositions by a margin of 2-to-1, despite a $30 million pro-voucher campaign spearheaded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper. In Washington, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Colorado and Arizona, voters approved significant spending increases for public schools, another signal that the public isn?t convinced of vouchers? potency...
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...concerns that led Congress in 1997 to strip President Clinton of his powers to negotiate "fast-track" trade pacts - agreements that could be put to the legislature in total, rather than be amended on a line-by-line basis. The President lost that vote because of the defection of pro-labor Democrats determined to avoid being railroaded into another NAFTA agreement. Nonetheless, that sent a message to America's potential trade partners: Don't bother to negotiate comprehensive agreements with the President, because he has no authority to deliver. The fast-track vote ended negotiations over the inclusion of Chile...
...feel-good exercises in which people "finish less than first." People lose elections, and negative ads serve the positive purpose of clearly arguing which candidate should. As this magazine's TV critic, I always like to see a new generation pay homage to the classics; for instance, that pro-Bush group's "remake" of Daisy, the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson ad that targeted Barry Goldwater as a dangerous extremist. Both ads cut from a little girl picking petals off a daisy to footage of a nuclear explosion. The new version accused Clinton and Gore of making America vulnerable to nuclear...