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Politics intruded on the writers' strike too, in complicated and ironic ways. Huckabee, who has cast himself as a worker-friendly Republican, took heat for crossing Tonight's picket line. Meanwhile, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, TV's havens-in-exile for Bush bashers, found themselves getting turned down by Democratic and left-leaning guests, since they were working without striking writers. Stephen Colbert, in character as a conservative pundit, railed against Barack Obama for pledging, if he's President, to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yet turning down the Report: "He's saying Stephen Colbert is worse than...
...think it was his first. In addition to his weekly column in the magazine, In the Arena, Klein is a prolific blogger on TIME.com's Swampland. That's where our political team can break news, gossip about new polls or commercials and do explainer videos. The Swampland cast includes national political correspondent Karen Tumulty, who is covering her sixth presidential campaign; Washington bureau chief Jay Carney; and Ana Marie Cox, the former Wonkette, whose witty writing and fun explainer videos help give Swampland its flair. (Working with Cox to put them together is TIME.com politics producer Caitlin Thompson.) Another regular...
...carried Clinton to victory. Obama got 37%, just as the polls projected. But the mantra of change that had turned seasoned journalists into giddy ballerinas in the days after Iowa did not win over the supporters of recently departed candidates Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, most of whom cast their ballots for Clinton. She got 40% instead of 30%, and Obama's lead disappeared, her fortunes revived, and both sides now have to plan for a campaign whose only certainty is uncertainty...
...Maureen Dowd: "Can Hillary cry her way back to the White House?" For those of us, particularly women, who had waited to see what would happen if Hillary offered a glimpse of who she really is, hearing her blasted for being manipulative when she finally lowered her cast-iron shield might have cut too close to the bone...
...withholding of knowledge of crimes and disciplinary violations morally bankrupt, but it undermines the relationship of mutual trust between Harvard and the secondary school. If the Admissions Office is unable to trust that the school will share disciplinary information of an applicant when relevant, a cloud of doubt is cast over the applications of all students from that secondary school—regardless of whether an applicant has committed an infraction and no matter how qualified an applicant is. Withholding disciplinary records may help a few students in the short-run, but it does so at a tremendous expense. That...