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...their own desires. In 1994, they wrested control of both houses of Congress after 40 years in the minority. Although this seemed to foretell the President's doom at the time, in hindsight, many feel that the Republican majorities in Congress actually helped Clinton. He was able to distinguish himself as the sensible, centrist alternative to both the liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress and cruise to re-election. Similarly, when the story of this scandal is ultimately written, Monica and Ken--like Newt and his Revolutionaries before them--may come to be remembered as the unwitting supporting cast...
...juxtaposition of the Southie guys' incorrect stereotyping of all of Harvard with the unfortunate appearance of someone who embodies that stereotype makes an important point, that stereotypes are both lazy versions that falsify reality and occasional insights into life. This films credits us with the intelligence to distinguish the one from the other...
...classmate John W. Turner '97 has expressed the issue as succinctly as anyone. His point is simple. A man who cannot govern himself should not govern a nation. A man who cannot distinguish between right and wrong should not be leading America...
Harvard fosters insomnia, fuels it and powers it. With a reading period which quickly turns into one very long day in which there is nothing to uo distinguish one twenty-four hour period from the next, not to mention libraries that stay open until one in the morning or that don't bother closing at all (and house libraries that don't even open until one in the afternoon), it's pretty easy to become nocturnal...
...terrible year for physically unattractive writers of literary novels. Even Al Gore didn't have such a bad year compared with physically unattractive writers of literary novels. In the publishing industry, the term "literary novel" is used to distinguish serious attempts at fiction from novels like, say, Love Story--the trash classic that the aforementioned Gore got in Dutch for suggesting was based partly on him. (The mix-up, as I understand it, came from Gore's impression that he was the model for the main character, Oliver Barrett IV, when in fact he'd been the model...