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...jealous type?" Jay Leno asked Laura Bush on the Tonight Show last week, just before he rolled tape of the President walking hand in hand with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The First Lady said she thought it was sweet. Most everyone else this side of Riyadh was appalled. "It was like fingernails scratching on a blackboard, magnified 10 million times," the religious conservative Gary Bauer told me. "You wonder if the folks at the White House have any idea of the impact an image like that has out in Middle America...
...they do. Indeed, the folks at the White House told me that the President and the infirm 80-year-old Crown Prince were walking on an uneven path in Texas, the prince reached out for support and ... anyway, to reject Abdullah's hand would have been ungracious, and the President will always choose courtesy over ungraciousness--even if the image conveys the subconscious message that the oily Saudis are so important to the U.S. economy that President Macho is willing to act in an unmanly fashion in order to keep them happy...
...Crimson will also be playing for something, or someone, bigger than the Ivy League crown...
With the Ivy crown already secured, it would have been easy for the Crimson players to relax against the Big Green (13-8, 3-4), but Harvard refused to back down. Although it was the last conference match of the seniors’ careers, the Crimson retained its focus on senior day and continued its winning ways...
...third consecutive season and for the 16th time in its history, the No. 19 Harvard women’s tennis team captured the Ivy League crown after posting a pair of 6-1 victories against Brown yesterday and Yale on Friday. The Crimson won its eighth-straight match, dating back to an April 2 victory against Pepperdine, and improved to 16-6 overall. With the title, the team automatically qualified for the NCAA tournament...