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When Beau A. J. Briese '01-'02 asked the IOP to invite radio host Larry Elder to speak at the forum, Briese presented a record-high list of student groups who wanted to hear the speaker at Harvard. But staff were still hesitant and took over two weeks to respond to Briese, who attributes the hesitancy to the staff's reluctance to open themselves up to the voice of students...
...share of controversial presidential pardons: Andrew Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving element, since a trial might have focused new attention on Bush's role--found a larger rationale. Those earlier pardons "were attempts to put an escapade behind the country, to heal the wound...
Soon after the John Ashcroft confirmation battle, a Democratic elder statesman sidled up to George W. Bush at a White House gathering. "You know, Mr. President," he said, "you can handle the Russians. You can handle the Iraqis. The one thing you can't handle is one of those Supreme Court Justices quitting...
...Coleman-Adebayo, an MIT-trained political scientist who had held a string of impressive jobs at the United Nations and World Wildlife Fund, her first two years at the EPA during the administration of Bush the Elder were like laboring on a "21st-century plantation." During her earliest days on the job, "I got a very clear sense that I wasn't welcome," she recalls. Just how unwelcome became clear two years later on the eve of Bill Clinton's inaugural. A senior EPA executive told her that she could attend a routine staff meeting only because "we consider...
Just over four minutes later, Harvard padded its lead with a goal from the elder Moore, to make it 2-0 at 5:46. Moore drove to the net and held off the Golden Knights' defender with his backhand. Switching to his forehand, he netted a controversial shot that questionably crossed the goal line before Clarkson goaltender Mike Walsh could fish...