Word: chungs
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...editorial column ("Change the Council," Dec. 17, 1994), Patrick Chung correctly identifies the problems of the Undergraduate Council as lack of support and lack of power. Unfortunately, rather than suggesting ways to improve Harvard's student government. Chung sardonically advises the council to alter its organization into a "government game...
...rather than use this power wisely, we have chosen to waste it. In general, Harvard students are notoriously apathetic on becoming a unified community. As Chung notes in his article: "in the last council elections, barely 20 percent of undergraduates voted.... the council doesn't even have enough power for students to have a passing interest in it." The council is powerless because the students have no interest in it, not the other way around. As most of the College still remembers, students chose not to recommend an increased term bill alotment for the council last year. This rejection maintained...
Talkative: "God knows what ((Chung)) could have gotten my mother to say." -- Clinton...
...family incidents contributed a certain spontaneity to the new Speaker's week. He blew up over the TV interview in which Connie Chung elicited from his mother the whispered confession that Gingrich had called the First Lady "a bitch." "Connie Chung should apologize," Newt said. And then, at Newt's moment of triumph, Bob Gingrich, his father, chose not to join in a standing ovation. Newt has admitted that his relationship with his adoptive father has always been distant. Newt had called Bob a few weeks earlier to break the ice. "I want to thank you for being an influence...
...been a less abusive word than "bitch," Newt Gingrich might not have been thrown off-message on the biggest day of his political life. Long after the debate is over about whether Connie Chung should have broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news...