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...knew the dysfunctional Bush foreign policy operation, tilted as it was so heavily along the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis, would not permit, much less sustain, scrutiny. As the trio departed, a Rice aide asked one of her suitors not to inform anyone at the Pentagon that chairmen had been chosen and the study group was moving forward. If Rumsfeld was alerted to the study group's potential impact, the aide said, he would quickly tell Cheney, who could, with a few words, scuttle the whole thing. Rice got through to Bush the next day, arguing that the thing was going...
After receiving the third magazine cover in a row with a white background, I have to say, How boring. Half the fun of getting the magazine is guessing what will be on the cover and then seeing what TIME has chosen. I understand the red and blue Venn diagram, but it looks terrible on my coffee table. I hope the Person of the Year cover will not be an abstract artist's caricature of somebody on a white background. If I want to see that kind of art, I'll go to a museum...
Last year you compared George W. Bush with Bull Connor, the civil rights-era police chief whose name is synonymous with racism. Do you regret that? I have not chosen my words as carefully as I would want. It was my hope that, as Connor's act awakened Americans to racist policies that existed in the South, [after] the apparent lack of concern with Katrina, Americans would look at the question of poverty. I have been terribly disappointed...
...dance on campus come together on one stage and provided an understanding of the dance community at Harvard. The show started off with a solid performance by Bhangra, in which the beautiful traditional costumes, the distinctively cultural choreography, and the music (both traditional and modern Bhangra) were all well chosen. Unfortunately, the other effect employed—having someone offstage occasionally shout to accompany different segments of the dance—was less effective, serving more to distract viewers from the dance than to complement the dancers’ movements. This was followed by “Sway...
...Crimson is editorially and fiscally independent from the University. Its leadership is chosen solely by the paper’s outgoing staff...