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...parents fully expect—that we will find lucrative employment upon graduation, but the plum jobs that seemed our due in the early 1990s are disappearing. During last October’s Career Week, the Office of Career Services’ recruiting director Judy E. Murray was blunt about graduating seniors’ prospects: “If they think it’s the economy of two years ago, when the jobs were jumping off the shelves, they’re wrong...
...lack of explanation is particularly saddening over a dean so well-liked by students. Always amusingly blunt, I very much appreciated Dean Lewis’ habit of responding to my many Crimson-related e-mails (“Who’s in charge of ______?”) within 20 minutes, regardless of the hour in his 18-hour day. I am sure that the old and new Harvard regimes had an ugly clash behind closed doors (and thank you Dean Lewis for keeping it behind closed doors, unlike the shenanigans of a former professor soon to appear...
...them politically. At one point that spring, a senior White House official said in exasperation, "The dirty little secret of Iraq is that there is no plan." Rice, responding to a request by Democratic Senator Joe Biden for Administration officials to appear before his Foreign Relations Committee, was refreshingly blunt. "We're not ready yet," she told Biden, who held the hearings anyway. They were covered widely as a preparation for war, to the consternation of Republican congressional leaders. Trent Lott, then Senate leader of the G.O.P., called Cheney to tell him the media were making the Administration's Iraq...
...adds that biological weapons in this war at this time are of little use. Iraq?s suspected bio-weapons (anthrax, botulism) take days to weaken the human body and would do little to blunt a fast moving force. He also says coalition troops have biological and chemical weapons detectors and decontamination units in the field, making it tough for bio-weapons to be much of a factor...
...this, the father has not heard any self-pity or talk of the "terrible burdens" of being President from his son. He has observed how 43 uses physical workouts for rejuvenation, to blunt fatigue. Yet he knows being President has its moments of great loneliness. "The decision on the war cannot finally be made by a committee or by a general. It must be made by one person--the President...