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...Kathleen was supposed to be the Kennedy for folks who don't even like Kennedys! Earnest and unglamorous, smart and hardworking, with a blameless private life, she doled out the family charm in responsible, measured amounts. She married young and even took her husband's last name, which is an antipatriarchal thing to do if your own last name is Kennedy...
That's why the czar is in Vegas, sitting in a room at the Venetian Hotel guarded by U.S. marshals. The czar, a smart, likable, earnest man who believes he can help Americans by fighting the drug war, is derided by the opposition as "Bill Bennett's Mini-Me." Indeed, he worked for Bennett under Reagan in the Department of Education and then as Bennett's deputy drug czar in the first Bush Administration. When George W. appointed him, the President told the czar to watch the movie Traffic as a way to understand the problem. The czar, who told...
...beginning of the term that he or she knows what the CUE Guide says about his or her teaching and tells students to “just deal with it” because no changes in teaching style will be made. Neugeboren presents such a refreshing contrast in his earnest desire “to do a good job” for the students’ benefit, even if it may come at the price of his personal pride...
That his supporters—after two hours of heart-wrenching and somber speeches—burst into partisan chants is neither surprising nor unfortunate. It is simply an earnest reflection of the gravity of our current circumstances: the competitive and critical upcoming election coupled with the startling absence of leadership approaching Wellstone’s moral caliber. In a crowd of 20,000 mourners, it is unreasonable to expect that thoughts would not drift towards the political struggles to come...
...don’t go to rallies.” Most Harvard students are embarrassed by the trappings of demonstrations and the extremists who frequent them. We practice critical thinking all day. By night, we write response papers ripping apart political theories and literary masterpieces. The earnest “Hey hey, ho ho, war in Iraq must go” of the kids in front of the Science Center offends our critical sensibilities. We blush, cringe, smirk and flee to the safety of the library, even when we support the chanters’ cause...