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With the new concern about President Clinton's campaign fundraising and with the general fear about the First Lady playing any sort of policy role, the First Daughter, Chelsea, is being heralded as the best of the Clintons: cool, poised and classy, as Newsweek put it a few weeks ago. Cool, poised and classy. I didn't remember hearing these descriptions four years ago. And I was right...
...Saturday Night Live made fun of Chelsea's hair and braces. The numerous late night talk shows couldn't stop joking about her looks. The culmination of this relentless sarcasm was a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times that viciously mocked her appearance. Thankfully, this cartoon provoked protest. In total, 500 people wrote demanding that Chelsea be left alone. Even parodies of Amy Carter hadn't focused on her looks. And the media realized that a thirteen-year-old child, whoever her parents may be, should be left alone...
Remembering how harsh the media was to her four years ago, we are left to wonder what has changed. Has the media turned over a new leaf? Or has Chelsea herself changed? One sentence can answer all our questions. Last year, when Chelsea first reappeared in the public eye on tour with her mother, two Newsweek reporters wrote a commentary praising Chelsea and how she had grown up so well despite the fishbowl phenomenon. Yet, in their surprise at Chelsea's new appearance, they wrote: Is this the same awkward orthodontically-challenged girl who moved into the White House three...
Come September, Chelsea Clinton may have to get familiar with the 10,000 Men of Harvard. That's the school song of one college known to have accepted the First Daughter. Chelsea was offered a place under Harvard's early-action program. But Chelsea's dad said she hasn't made up her mind where she'll study. Amherst, Brown, Princeton, Stanford, Wellesley and Yale are also on her list...
Contrary to a story in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, a close friend and classmate of Chelsea Clinton said she does not believe the President's daughter has been accepted to Harvard's class...