Word: viewpoint
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...main goal is to get the U.C. more in touch with the student body and to use the U.C. as a liaison between different student groups," he said. "We don't really have an overly political viewpoint," said Blake, who was co-chair of the CLC last year and who has been a delegation chair from Eliot House for two years...
...Jeffrey Archer's Viewpoint on the reform of Britain's 700-year-old House of Lords [Oct 26], it sounded really nice when he noted that "the hereditary peers owe their position to no living person. They are therefore free to think and act as they choose." Indeed, they have done nothing other than be born into the "right" families to gain their seats. According to Archer, the fact that the hereditary Lords are finally voting to give up their privileges is a proof of their wisdom. If it is, I only wish the Lords had been slightly more clever...
Richard Lacayo gives voice to the gnawing uneasiness many Americans feel about Kenneth Starr's investigation-- that while the President's conduct was clearly wrong, Starr's investigation was somehow not right [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 5]. As Lacayo correctly points out, much more than Clinton's presidency is at stake here. Congress must act with discretion and care. MICHAEL J. MULLET Rockford, Mich...
...those who grew up believing in Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his brand of pragmatism [VIEWPOINT, Sept. 21]. Despite his critics, I have chosen to support Mahathir's unorthodox economic policies. Why? Because he has me convinced that he will ultimately be proved right...
...deeply moved by Yuri Zarakhovich's "A Russian's Lament" [VIEWPOINT, Sept. 21], describing his country's inability to cope with freedom. The concept of freedom is so deeply ingrained in U.S. culture that it never occurs to us that other nations do not even know exactly what to embrace. It becomes all the more imperative for the West to teach these concepts to others, rather than aim for an economic coup in evolving nations. Our challenge is to elect leaders who are better than individual countries deserve--they must serve the world. KRIS GALLAGHER Chicago...