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...Suicides”—of the cigarette smoke that veiled the audience and room at an event at The Harvard Advocate last Tuesday. After reading a passage from the novel that he is working on, Eugenides—a creative writing professor at Princeton and alum of Brown??answered questions from a crowd that spilled into the kitchen and onto the stairs. Eugenides mainly fielded questions about his writing process—revealing the difficulties, pleasures, and surprises that he encounters...
...answer to why was it not discussed further is obvious: It didn’t matter, nor should it. Senator Brown??s ability to make nice for the camera bears little on his ability to make policy. However, when the story first came to light, I couldn’t help recall Lisa Edelstein’s character Laurie from the hit TV show The West Wing, who was also trying to pay her way through law school by working as an escort. The point Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and main writer, was making...
Despite some botched handling of the issue, we do commend President Obama for sticking to health-care reform in spite of the difficult political climate. Burdened by other pressing issues, like the need for jobs creation and Sen. Scott Brown??s critical electoral win, the president has maintained focus on health care in the rising spotlight and not let the issue die. While many other issues merit action, health care is, nevertheless, one of the president’s top domestic priorities. Given the extraordinary efforts to derail it, President Obama has now acted decisively on the future...
...coherent set of beliefs than an anti-ideology, defining itself entirely by its opposition to political elites; once it takes part in this system of elites through electoral success, its failure to articulate a set of ideals results in its demise. Sensing the populist anger that resulted in Scott Brown??s victory, Obama tried to tap into it, but his efforts necessarily failed; as an elected official, he was a participant in the Washington culture that the Tea Partiers despised, and the rest of Americans took his dramatic proclamations with the grain of salt most populism deserves...
With the understanding that senators are held hostage by larger political dynamics, Brown??s true test of bipartisanship will come when he casts his vote in favor or against a number of larger pieces of legislation—including those focused on health-care, immigration, climate change, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and financial regulation, to name a few. We encourage Brown to choose carefully in these upcoming votes and to carve out an identity as a bipartisan senator in the future. As a Republican representative from...