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...President wanted to return the loyalty Mr. Hastert had shown the Administration," the New York Times reported. But then, Lott had also been a loyal spear carrier for George W. Bush, shepherding the President's legislative priorities through the Senate in 2001 and 2002. Lott's problem was ancient history. He had been disloyal to Bush's father, siding with Newt Gingrich against the tax increases that President George H.W. Bush proposed in 1990 and dissing Bush the Elder by participating in a noisy, Gingrichite call for tax cuts during the 1992 campaign. "You think W. doesn't remember Trent...
...then there's the strange case of Donald Rumsfeld. Here was a flaming exception to the Bush family code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld...
Could Princeton actually be the second-best team in the Ancient Eight...
...wondered how such an idea would go down at Harvard, with its reputation for fiercely independent faculty. Probably not too well. My image of the quintessential professor here is Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek from 1860 to 1883, who lived by himself in Holworthy Hall, kept chickens in his room and wore a blue cloak and wild beard, that made, in the words of Professor Henry W. Longfellow, “Diogenes a possibility...
...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly