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...trained (i.e., Harvard-educated) eye. For one thing, the Harvard Syndrome causes otherwise sincere people to lie, with almost pathological zeal, about their motives for not attending Harvard. The lies can range from the banal (“lousy undergrad education,” as my Legal Seafood chum insisted) to the breathtaking and patently unbelievable (“I really liked Yale better”). But however involved and intricate—or charmingly clumsy—the lie may be, the truth is always the same. The Harvard Syndrome sufferer was denied admission to Harvard...
...just to play a good old-fashioned game of football is simply out of the question. And since intramural touch football games tend to attract those ‘less familiar’ with the sport, Nick D. Zeitlin ’02 and his off-campus chum Brandon K. Gutman ’02, are adding a litle Harvard power to a local Boston fooball league...
...That has made Powell chum in the water for the sharks in Dubya's sea. Thanks to Cheney and Rumsfeld, a generation of players with a well-honed ideology give the team a distinct hard-nosed tilt. When a friend asked Paul Wolfowitz, who is one of them, why he took the managerial No. 2 slot at Defense, he gave a one-word answer "Powell"?though Wolfowitz now denies it. These guys don't salute anyone, and they don't operate behind closed doors. They speak loudly, in public, and they make demands. Powell faces rivals who are interested less...
...candidate of convenience. Just so you know the landscape, according to this week's TIME/CNN poll, 44% of Democrats say they'd vote for you in 2004, and 28% of all voters. That's twice as high as the next Democrat, who just happens to be your old chum Senator Hillary Clinton...
...dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry set to bubbly music - and exquisitely realized...