Former president and U-M alum Gerald Ford and former secretary of the treasury Paul O’Neill will participate in two programs in the Rackham Building on September 18 to dedicate the planned construction of the School of Public Policy. > URecord: “Gerald Ford to attend Ford School dedication”
“… The issue of Israel moved some neoconservatives – like Podhoretz – to the conservative side to be sure. But to write a piece whose central claim is that neoconservatives are Jewish nationalists out to control American policy in behalf of Israel is merely to mouth the false and hateful propaganda of the Islamic jihadists. […]
According to USA Today, Arnold Schwarzenegger has told a TV station that he opposes the racial information ban, or Proposition 54, in California. If passed, the initiative would prohibit the state from collecting information about race: “Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, in an attempt to defuse criticism of the big contributions he’s received from Indian […]
“Personally, the idea of an American – me – and a group of Brits coming to Iraq to open a publication was fraught with concerns about cultural imperialism. I feared we would be granting legitimacy to an invasion and occupation that I consider to be illegal. But after careful thought and having published seven issues […]
“Shipley, 25, a 1996 graduate of Huron High School, appears in a “Girls of the Big 10” pictorial in the new October issue. She autographed copies of the magazine at two Ann Arbor stores Thursday. Photographed in the buff but for a chain link belt, she’s featured in a 10-page pictorial of what Playboy claims […]
Recent crime from the Ann Arbor News: “Woman reports peeping tom An Ann Arbor woman said a man was peeking through her blinds into the bedroom of her home early Thursday, city police reported. The 20-year-old woman, who lives in the 500 block of Packard Street, called police at 8:27 a.m. after she saw the […]
” … Should the daily seek total administrative independence from the University? I don’t know, since there clearly are benefits to being an arm of Fleming: the ability to use the University’s investment office to invest their surplus funds, and their cheap telephone and internet resources that enable the Daily to save money. There have, […]