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After formally entering the 2008 Presidential race yesterday, John McCain loaded reporters on to his Straight Talk Express in three shifts, taking on all comers in the style that's traditionally endeared him to reporters more than voters. But he was not actually all that forthcoming, and by today, as a result, he had lost points with his expected constituency just when he is trying to kick-start his flagging campaign...
...Reporters nudged each other, happy to be in on the joke. But why not now just tell us now, we asked. "I don't want to step on the story," he said. And then, he did. Hours later reporters learned that McCain had, literally, hopped off the Straight Talk Express to talk to noted White House correspondent Larry King, with whom he was much more direct about the Department of Justice scandals: Gonzales, he said on the program Wednesday evening, should step down...
Third Eye Blind: My Anti-Drug? Look, I understand that all of the rules of music snobbery dictate that I am no longer cool if I express my fondness for a band that talked about suicide in a non-detached ironic way. (Please don’t step out from that ledge, my friend! Please!) Whatever. Third Eye Blind remains perhaps the only band I know of that somehow willingly tricked parents into letting their children listen to songs encouraging cocaine and crystal meth use. What could they do? “Two lines of coke I cut with Drano/And...
...afterwards, all anyone wanted to talk about was Iraq. The scrum of reporters outside the Straight Talk Express was thick and vaguely hostile, tossing repeated questions about the few paragraphs in the speech that mentioned the war. In what might be the single most depressing understatement of the year, McCain noted it "has not gone well." But anyone expecting a shift in policy was disappointed. Rather, he reiterated the points that he had previewed to Jon Stewart the night before - that we made mistakes getting into the war, that we shouldn't make the same mistakes again and well, there...
...writing as board members and alumni of Harvard’s Diversity & Distinction (D&D) magazine to express our extreme disappointment at the inaccurate depiction of our publication in the Crimson’s recent article, “Groups on the Brink.” The article overlooked Diversity & Distinction’s many accomplishments, instead portraying a misleadingly negative picture of the publication’s financial status. In so doing, the author missed an opportunity to tell the truth: that Diversity & Distinction provides an inspiring success story of a student organization that has overcome financial challenges...