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...jammed with the onslaught of visitors. Energized by the fiery and historic competition and hoping for another exciting victory--go Harvard, go!--I start to hum some Harvard "fight" songs as I walk along Plympton Street towards the river. "Ten thousand men of Harvard," I begin, noting with chagrin the odd looks I get from random passers-by and fellow Harvard students. Subdued, but only slightly, I continue, "want victory today...
...School of Government. While This Town exposes the Washington culture that feeds what Mr. Dole sees as the White House scandal machine, its target is not the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but rather the pack of wolves officially known as the White House Press Corps. Much to the chagrin of Mr. Dole and Clinton-bashers everywhere, This Town ridicules the famous "-gates" of newspaper headlines and Letterman monologues (Travelgate, Filegate, even Nanny-gate). These "scandals" are revealed as nothing more than ridiculous, inconsequential products of journalistic attempts at self-promotion...
Much to the staff's chagrin, final clubs won't wither away any time soon. The staff's position in just a manifestation of the sour grapes gnashing between the bitter teeth of those who aren't invited to the clubs...
...article. Curiously, I found out from the head of Room 13 that the peer-counseling-group was not responsible for "Ad-Boarding" me. Although Room 13 was rankled by the article, it did not think administrative action was the correct solution (in fact, the head of Room 13 expressed chagrin that official action had been taken against me). It turns out I had been Ad-Boarded by a salaried administrator from the Bureau of Study Counsel who had heard about my article. As everything I had done was legal, was in good fun and hurt no one, I was sure...
Over the past week, much to the chagrin of the media, the doubts initially held by so many centrist Israelis "in the know" proved to be well-founded. Since the media played one of the leading roles in the production of the "peace process," it is not surprising that for the past three years, their cameras have been covered with rose-tinted lenses. An accepting western audience and a battle-weary Israeli one bought into the illusion...