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Most of America couldn't have cared less. Until December 2002, that is, when bloggers staged a dramatic show of force. The occasion was Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, during which Trent Lott made what sounded like a nostalgic reference to Thurmond's past segregationist leanings. The mainstream press largely glossed over the incident, but when regular journalists bury the lead, bloggers dig it right back up. "That story got ignored for three, four, five days by big papers and the TV networks while blogs kept it alive," says Joshua Micah Marshall, creator of talkingpointsmemo.com, one of a handful...
...conspicuous rise to power of Harriet Miers, President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee, could leave any Harvard woman unnerved. If an ambitious female seeks professional success, must she really follow Miers’ path: no husband, no children, and fawning notes to the boss for his birthday...
...seems to provide further evidence of the female club’s reliance on its male counterparts for social space. For instance, in addition to punch events at two male final clubs, the A.D. and the Phoenix, an e-mail indicated that an Isis member would hold her 21st birthday party at the Delphic “from 10:30 until you stop remembering...
...mail inviting Isis members to the birthday party reads–in giant letters–“YOU BOOZE...
Twice a year, I open my mailbox to find an envelope from Captain Brian Sullivan at MIT, and twice a year, I hope in vain that, like my grandmother, he’s sending me a birthday card or an interesting article that he found in his local newspaper. I’m always disappointed, though, because I always find a photocopied letter that promises me thousands of dollars in scholarships, summer travel around the world, and an opportunity to serve my country. I just have to sign up for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC...