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...certainly hopeful that our increased emphasis on appointing scholars at an early career stage will contribute to the diversity of our Faculty given that the younger cohort of scholars are more diverse than more senior cohorts,” Summers said at a recent interview...
...Brokaw three weeks ago. A Bush friend tells TIME that the President "wanted to take a big swipe" at Gingrich during the interview--but Brokaw never brought up the subject. According to an Administration aide, Bush's remarks were going to consign the former Speaker to the cohort of "babbling, divisive people" who have criticized the war. "He wasn't going to mention [Gingrich] by name," says the aide, "but it was going to be very clear." --By John F. Dickerson
...late to rephrase the question; the parade has begun. Tens of thousands of volunteers - and a few companies of the regular Army - march by to the energetic prompting of a 12-piece brass band. Making the greatest early impression: a cohort of masked women in black, armed with AK-47s. Not far behind, but at the opposite end of the impressiveness scale, are a rabble of local Ba?ath workers, many of them sporting pot bellies and making little effort to stay in step. On the public address system, a man with a deep voice exhorts the soldiers...
...entertainment media were happy to oblige. Stories of random shootings and disappeared and murdered girls were everywhere, from the increasingly graphic, grisly prime-time franchises of CSI and Law & Order to the orange DANGER!-DANGER!-DANGER! graphics of Connie Chung Tonight and the rest of its cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first bead.) Some dozen-and-a-half cop shows dominated prime-time series TV, not counting the numerous cable crime series and a steady stream of increasingly popular reality shows...
...went to Andover and Exeter, and they knew what it was all about," Nicholas observes. What's more, say those who knew Cheney then, he spent more time "in the bend-your-elbow club," as a former Yalie puts it, than in the library. Cheney hung out with his cohort on the freshman football team, stayed up late playing cards and drinking beer. "Dick wasn't big on studying," remembers Jacob Plotkin, one of his roommates...