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...PRESIDENT DESPERATE TO TURN THE corner after a wretched 2005, last week's circus was the last thing he needed. This has been a season of doubt about the Administration's competence, candor and instinct. In serial scenes of domestic violence, Republicans are attacking their own. An all-Republican House panel concluded last week that Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff made decisions during Hurricane Katrina "late, ineffectively or not at all." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq by cranky Republican Senators: "I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better," said Chuck Hagel of Nebraska...
...always competing in Kwan's shadow. It was a crash course for the teenager in accepting the baggage that comes with being an Olympic-caliber skater. Even if Meissner is not as polished as Cohen or Kwan--"Sometimes I can't believe the dumb things I say"--her candor makes her a refreshing addition to the women's squad...
Since Lindsay Lohan’s recent Vanity Fair confessions of bulimia and cocaine use, I have felt a particular—and peculiar—duty to discuss my own reading period affliction with the public. Hopefully, my candor will help others cope with similar issues, and will help me reveal the true culprits behind my shameful disorder. I have intellectual bulimia. There. I said it, and I won’t retract it. I sit in Lamont or in Widener or in Ticknor, trying hopelessly to study for my four massive finals. I see my peers with eyes...
Snooping isn't so secret anymore in China: officials in the city of Shenzhen announced last week that two cartoon cops would soon start to appear on local Web browsers as a reminder that the police are patrolling cyberspace too. Such candor, however, did not play well with Netizens. PONDBLOG said, "China is trying to make Internet censorship palatable by putting cute faces on its online thought police." JACKARANDA derided the "Great Firewall of China," deeming the cybercops proof that "the Net can be developed and strangled all at once." But a cautious FREECASHSPACE questioned the upside of "life...
Clayton-Pedersen stressed that the project did not attempt to explore the motivations of the students who left their ethnicity unknown, although it does suggest some speculative reasons for students’ candor once they enrolled, including a fear of discrimination. The study also suggests that mixed-race students may not feel comfortable ticking only...