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...don’t have the vote (and since women and guests can only enter some rooms, separate spheres are in full force). Despite some exceptions, those in control are generally white and middle- or upper-class; and when you make a mess, someone else is usually there to clean up after you. (I always thought it was strangely appropriate when, during punch season, one club dresses up like suffragettes and mocks the early feminist movement. Isn’t that the final clubs’ current era, anyway...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Of Dead Fish and Final Clubs | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...After being gung-ho Harvard since birth, Rory ultimately decides to stay closer to home and attend Yale. Putz!Rory’s mother on Yale:  “Sweetie, have you ever been to New Haven? . . .Take a look at the coffee pot tomorrow before I clean it:  that’s New Haven...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: The Ready-for-Primetime Facebook | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

Besides crawling back to UNESCO, her visit to Paris was aimed at mending fences with the international community and, more particularly, the French. It was a particularly deft move by the Bush administration, sending the president’s better half to clean up the worse half’s mess. Laura does the dirty work, kissing up to President Chirac, the UN, and the French people, while Bush reaps the rewards unscathed...

Author: By Erol N. Gulay, | Title: Mrs. Bush Gets Frenched | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...water, Harvard struggled slightly in its 5000-meter head race, unable to maintain as clean and smooth a stroke as it had hoped and struggling to tame a tail wind nipping at its back...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M., W. Heavies Remain Hot Following Summer | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...first time in five years. Roh's perceived mishandling of everything from crippling labor strikes to the North Korean nuclear crisis to relations with the U.S. has sent his approval ratings plummeting to 25.6% from 80% right after he took office. "I supported Roh because he was new and clean," says Myong No Min, a furniture-shop owner in the southern city of Kwangju. "Now I really regret it. He's not ready to be President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crisis of Confidence | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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