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...triangulation” strategy, which he advocated during Bill’s 1996 presidential election. That was before Morris resigned amid charges of extramarital affairs and podiatric penchants.)Nor is his account of Rice’s record compelling. There are too many variables besetting her viability as a candidate??including, Morris admits, her intimacy with the Bush administration and its (lack of) progress in the Iraq war. It’s possible that the distinguished secretary of state and the accomplished New York senator would be too dignified to wage a catfight. But if they find themselves...
Treating the candidate??s answers as mere interludes to their next opportunity to speak, Banerji and Lee could perhaps be forgiven if somewhere in the midst of the circus, they had asked illuminating questions. Instead, they welcomed us to what they dubbed “the no-bullshit zone” by asking Gadgil, “Why do you want to be vice-president?” Unsatisfied with the response elicited by Banerji, Lee shot forth subsequently, “Why are you playing second-fiddle?” As if Gadgil didn?...
...minutes you are: Speaking at a candidate??s debate...
...realm of the UC for two reasons. First, representatives are not elected for their political views. Whatever the reason that UC candidates garner votes—from having great ideas about how to improve Harvard to generally being nice people—UC elections are independent of a candidate??s political leanings. Consequently, the UC’s political stances reduce their legitimacy, both in the eyes of the student body and the administration. This hurts the UC’s ability to negotiate with the administration on issues like student advocacy and services, where the UC actually...
...Library for many months while researching the book—in which he paints a portrait of a Harvard campus gripped by homophobic hysteria. In 1920, a secret tribunal under the aegis of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, expelled eight students and one philosophy Ph.D. candidate??and expunged one purportedly gay alum’s name from University records. One of the expelled students committed suicide. Another killed himself 10 years later.Wright has contributed mightily to our knowledge of this dark episode in Harvard history. And, to some extent, he warns us before...