By Nathaniel Brown on March 21, 2008
William F. Buckley, Jr., passed away on Wednesday, February 27th, marking the end of an era, as he was the preeminent intellectual of the post-Word War II American conservative movement. In recent years, the term “conservative” has lost an absolute definition, and competing factions have intensely debated its “true” meaning. At the close [...]
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By Christina Cozzetto on March 21, 2008
An article that ran in The Brown Daily Herald (“Brown looks to other universities in its discussion of co-ed doubles,” Jan. 30) discussed the possibility that the University would implement “gender-neutral” dorms for upperclassmen. This would be a relatively drastic step for Brown to take, and the administration is looking to comparable schools to see [...]
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By Anish Mitra on March 21, 2008
Hugo Chavez is oppressing his own people for personal gain. Unfortunately, he isn’t the first tyrant to destroy a nation.
Posted in International, Lead | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
By Andrew Migneault on March 21, 2008
Too many times have I heard the gripe, “I wish our University would stop acting like it is so poor.” I had to laugh when I saw the heaping pile of booklets stacked up next to the newspapers in the Mail Room. Despite the best efforts put forth by the University to get all of [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on March 21, 2008
Sean B. Quigley
William F. Buckley, Jr., as I trust you know, passed away on February 27. He was a man who injected class into conservatism, teeth into traditionalism, and vocabulary into even the most verbose. He was a man truly grounded by conservative first principles – so much so that his life story, [...]
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By Kristina Kelleher on March 21, 2008
The Vast-Right Wing Conspiracy and Republican Attack Machine may have thought that they “beat the bitch,” but it appears likely that their sights were pointed in the wrong direction. While Hillary Rodham Clinton has endured the bulk of criticisms from stalwarts of the Right from Pat Buchanan to Robert Bork for nearly two decades, it [...]
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By Peter Catsimpiris on March 21, 2008
To the Editor:
Reading “Against Waterboarding: A Question of Values” in February’s Spectator, I was dismayed that Mr. Halenda does not explain exactly which “values” urge the prohibition of this infamous interrogation tactic, a failure leading to his muddled nonsolution to this ethical dilemma that ultimately decries what is doubtless a reasonable means of foiling terrorist [...]
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By Keith Dellagrotta on March 21, 2008
As the general election draws ever closer, it is time for Brown students and the United States public in general to get down to the nitty-gritty. It is time for you as a voter to examine each political issue in detail so that when you vote for a presidential candidate and his or her platform, [...]
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By Andrew E. Kurtzman on March 21, 2008
In “Gun-Free Zones: The Latest in Suicide Pacts” (Spectator VI:3), Kristina Kelleher ’09 noted that the Virginia Tech, Columbine, Beach, Jonesboro, Paducah, Connetquot High, Killeexn, Orange Park, SuccessTech, and West Nickel Mines school shootings all took place in so-called “gun-free zones.” This argument would, most unfortunately, presage another horrendous act of campus violence: the February [...]
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By Phileda Tennant on March 21, 2008
On February 21, 2008, the seats in Salomon 101 quickly filled, as the attendees anticipated seeing former United Nations ambassadors John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke ‘62 duke it out over the importance of an organization “criticized as an irrelevant…debating society.” Or, at least, Janus Forum leader Jess Maddox ‘08 told the audience this was the [...]
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