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(09/28/05 9:00am)
This Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon narrowly defeated Likud rival Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu in a party vote. His political victory solidifies an important ideological shift for Likud, Israel's ruling right-wing party. The extent of popular and political support will determine the success of this shift. Yet as Sharon grabs hold of the re-emerging political center, his greatest obstacle is not internal opposition by Bibi or external opposition by Labor, but terrorism. If terrorist acts against Israel increase, the center will fall, Likud will move to the right and Sharon's ideological shift will unravel along with his political career.
(08/16/05 9:00am)
I have decided to devote a few hours during which I really should be doing homework to explain to the ever-curious Dartmouth student the reason behind the Democratization of Sen. Bill Frist's, R-Tenn., embryonic views. You see, Bill, like quite a few politicians of the conservative persuasion, is not really human.
(08/02/05 9:00am)
Everyone wants me to do it, and frankly I'd rather not! My teachers and mentors, my heroes and politicians, and now even the Rockefeller Center -- everyone keeps drumming the same message into my head. "Change the World" -- what a silly notion! And I really don't understand it. Have you seen it? It's really a wonderful thing, our world. Were I to concoct a slogan, I would probably pen something along the lines of "See the World" or "Explore the World." Here, I would maintain the cosmopolitan ethos, but change the impetus from something possibly dangerous to a thing more exciting -- like informing students of a world outside Hanover proper.
(05/04/05 9:00am)
I believe that regulated competition is good and necessary for the economy. It generates wealth and promotes progress. Similarly, competition in sports enhances skills and makes better athletes. By extension, competition in the classroom would generate knowledge and promote learning. Now, if the College wished to promote the pursuit of knowledge alongside moral and spiritual growth, surely it would prefer to do so in the most effective way possible. I hold that a competitive environment is best suited towards such an endeavor. Before you mark me crazy or, worse yet, cast me away to Harvard, please hear me out!
(04/29/05 9:00am)
In 1994, professor and literary critic Stanley Fish told the world that, "There is no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too." He argued that the "free speech" label is and always has been a political tool used for the purposes of advancing an individual or a group agenda. When the freedom of speech, among other freedoms, was denied to minorities, the Democratic movement seized the chance to employ free speech rhetoric to galvanize the public towards political and social emancipation of minorities. But I believe that free speech is an effective political tool because America's commitment to free speech transcends the political sphere. This implies that certain political compromises must be made lest we become hypocrites of our own cause.
(04/14/05 9:00am)
"Sending [John Bolton] to New York would be like sending Nixon to China it will be more like sending the bull into a China shop," Senator Joseph Biden, D-Del., said at the hearings of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations regarding George Bush's nomination of Bolton to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations.
(02/16/05 11:00am)
Continual debates tend to generate many varieties of arguments both for and against a given issue. Taking into account the existence of many such arguments on the SLI issue, I was surprised by their absence in N. Alex Tonelli's opinion piece "The Anti-Pledge of Allegiance" (Feb. 15) While correctly estimating the power of the purse that alumni hold over Dartmouth's policymaking, he assumes that alumni's sole reason for contribution is the maintenance of the frat scene. Does he think that all alumni belonged to or wanted to belong to fraternities? He confuses the predominance of the Greek system with it being the only social outlet for students, past and present. The fact is that while Greek life dominates, it is not all-encompassing, and other social alternatives exist.
(02/02/05 11:00am)
Professor and scholar Allan Bloom writes in his book "The Closing of the American Mind," that the post-WWII campaign for desegregation of college campuses drove many colleges across America to lower their admission standards and adopt the now-controversial affirmative action program. Our society has become more tolerant of minorities and more accepting of difference since the time Bloom taught at Cornell and, concurrently, the affirmative action strategy has significantly evolved in the face of new generations. Among other changes, admissions officers no longer require applicants to provide photographs of themselves and the Supreme Court has struck down the use of diversity quotas. However, the social disconnect engendered by affirmative action has remained.
(11/18/04 11:00am)
First, I want to get all the compliments out of the way. Dartmouth remains ranked among the top 10 institutions of higher learning in the United States. It is also the only self-described "college" to appear in the top 30. The Wall Street Journal ranks it seventh on its list of top feeder schools. Dartmouth is an elite institution with a unique focus on the undergraduate body and an extensive record of excellent teaching.
(11/09/04 11:00am)
The Republican victory on Tuesday was more substantial than people realize. Aside from winning both the popular and the electoral votes for the presidency, the Republicans now hold control of the Senate by 10 seats, the House of Representatives by 30 seats, and the National Governors Association by seven seats. In addition, four Supreme Court Justices are over 70 years old, with Chief Justice Rehnquist, at 80, currently being treated for cancer.
(11/03/04 11:00am)
Overprepared and ready.
(10/12/04 9:00am)
America seems to have befriended the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With its fall, Americans applauded the lifting of the Iron Curtain and the normalization of relations with the Soviets. Today, while still maintaining some diplomatic differences, the United States provides aid to Russia to prevent further brain drain to rogue nations and to help secure and maintain its haphazardly stored nuclear material and barely dismantled nuclear warheads. The Bush Administration speaks of Russia as our friend and President Bush refers to President Putin as "friend Vladimir." Meanwhile, that friend has quietly shut down the last privately-owned Russian television station, locked up an oil mogul for making contributions to the opposition party, reinforced "loyalty to the top" as the government's paradigm and replaced disloyal governors at will. All this has been accomplished with the quiet and resolve of a KGB agent. Shockingly, Vladimir Putin received KGB training.