Word: support
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Robert R. Porter '02 and Mattie J. Germer '03, who head up Harvard Students for Bush and for McCain, respectively, emphasized that while they believe strongly in their candidates, they would immediately support whoever wins the Republican battle...
...recent rarity of undergraduate oratory is largely due to lack of an organization to support it. Harvard has its Boylston Prize, its Parliamentary Speech and Debate Club and the occasional course on rhetoric, but no organization sponsors regular campus debates. To all but the most politically involved undergraduates, spoken debates are confined to dining halls and dorm rooms...
Even with the necessary support, though--say, a debating society or political union--incivility might still squelch debate. Today, most questions on which reasonable people can disagree are respectfully discussed, although casual accusations of bigotry limit debate on issues related to homosexuality or race. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, such name-calling (occasionally backed with force) silenced genuine debate on a much wider range of issues...
...Carolina voters with TV ads in which each side depicted its opponent as a truth-twisting slick who broke a pledge to avoid negative campaigning. While Bush may be counting on collecting much of Forbes' conservative vote, it may not be that simple an equation: Although much of Forbes' support comes from social conservatives and those seeking lower taxes (both likely to back Bush), he also carried a contingent of people voting against the GOP establishment, a group likely to back McCain. As for Forbes' future, if his last repositioning is anything to go by, there'll be no surprise...
...hijackers, who support Afghanistan's anti-Taliban opposition, have released 10 hostages since arriving in London Sunday, after forcing the Ariana airlines flight to reroute from a domestic flight in Afghanistan, first to Uzbekistan and then to Moscow. There's an almost self-conscious element of irony in the hijackers' original demand for the release of a key Afghan opposition leader. The Taliban had, only weeks ago, played a questionable role in resolving the Indian Airlines hijacking, in which Kashmiri militants had demanded that India release one of their leaders. But it's an irony to which the Taliban - hosts...