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...Most of the e-mailed ‘gotcha’ messages were either scathing, holier-than-thou or comments on the fallibility of all journalism,” he wrote. “I knew damn well I’d just been plain sloppy and careless...
Another myth is that the developed world already gives plenty of aid to the world's poor. Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill expressed a common frustration when he remarked about aid for Africa: "We've spent trillions of dollars on these problems and we have damn near nothing to show for it." O'Neill was no foe of foreign aid. Indeed, he wanted to fix the system so that more U.S. aid could be justified. But he was wrong to believe that vast flows of aid to Africa had been squandered. President Bush said...
Ouch. Corporation members don’t usually damn departing presidents with faint praise. But Daniel was hardly alone in his opinion. Rudenstine had become widely seen, in the words of one critic, as “the incredible shrinking college president,” a man whose mild presence had diminished the stature of the Harvard presidency. Larry Summers, his proponents insisted, would restore the role of university president to its pre-Rudenstine stature...
...PREZ Man, President Summers could really use some Tommy’s right about now. Seriously—just one slice of that greasy, delicious pizza. Damn. All his troubles would drain away like our motivation to come up with a fresh joke on this subject...
...come back smaller and more true to itself, shedding expensive failures in places such as Nashville and Tampa and Equatorial Guinea. The few players who have name recognition will be too old to come back, so we?ll be forced to memorize completely new unpronounceable Swedish and Slovakian names. (Damn you for wasting my time, Miroslav Satan.) Hockey will be for the very few Americans it was meant for. Basically...