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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just kept on coming, now in the form of actual conversations with upperclass students. Our prefects assured us that they were there to tell us "anything we needed to know about Harvard," and students from campus groups would routinely stop by our entryway to introduce themselves and offer to answer our questions. My second week, I got an e-mail from a junior who introduced herself as the niece of the neighbor of my orthodontist's assistant. Any questions, she assured me, feel free...
Quick, who killed more than 10,000 people last year and drove millions more from their homes? The answer begins with an M... Nope, it wasn?t Slobodan Milosevic; it was a hurricane with the easygoing moniker of Mitch. In fact, more people were turned into refugees by Mother Nature in 1998 than by wars and other conflicts, according to the International Red Cross World Disasters Report 1999. The report says that violent weather episodes from China and India through the Philippines and Central America killed 20,000 people and impacted dramatically on the lives of some 250 million others...
From that point on, say the Governor's allies, he threw his back into the race. Within the Bush camp, the dominant conversation ever since has been how to manage these expectations--with the answer that if you keep talking about how high they are, it will seem too conventional for reporters to write about how he failed to meet them, and so maybe, just maybe, the news cycle will smile on them and the counterintuitive story of the debut will be that Bush actually lived up to them. How else to explain the name of the plane that ferried...
Bush loyalists have a ready answer for that charge. The old days of the smoke-filled rooms, says an aide, produced better candidates than the current primary process that has seen Lamar Alexander campaign nonstop for six years. "The genius of the old system was that people with the interests of the party at heart made decisions," the Bush aide argues. "They knew the guys' characters: He's got it, he doesn't. He's clean, he's a slimeball. Clinton wouldn't have got very far under that system...
...portentous authorial asides, Harris states, "Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?" If Hannibal is the answer, we're in real trouble...