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...baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply because of chance. Other problems he tackled: in warfare, how strings of bombs would fall; why pollsters erred in calling the 1948 election for Dewey over Truman; and the authorship of the Federalist papers, by analyzing word frequency. A droll defender of his field, he once wrote, "It is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them...
...Chief made humility his calling card, telling audiences that he came to work every day hoping not to be pinched in case it was just a dream. He is conscious, however, of the role he has played in history. Three years ago, he told the annual banquet of the Federalist Society about traveling with the President in Florida on Sept. 11, 2001, when initial reports suggested a small twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. "What a horrible accident; the pilot must have had a heart attack or something," the President had said to Card. Later, while...
...Speaking to the Federalist Society in 2003, Card described how Bush starts each weekday when he?s in town. "The President shows up in the Oval Office between quarter of seven and seven o?clock in the morning, and I?m there to greet him," Card said. "One of the greatest privileges that anyone can have in any democracy is to say, 'Good morning, Mr. President.'" He told other audiences that someone had to be sure the President got a haircut regularly, and that someone was him. Bolten may delegate the haircut scheduling. But the President can be confident that...
...evidence here at Harvard last week. It would be unthinkable for a Harvard student organization to host, say, Private Lyndie England, who on the retina of the collective imagination will be forever giving the thumbs-up to the degradation of a fellow human being. But the Harvard Law School Federalist Society thought nothing of inviting Judge Jay S. Bybee, whose infamous “torture memo” of August 2002 gave the thumbs-up to the degradation of hundreds—if not thousands—of human beings, to give a speech on constitutional law.By not only hosting...
...exited Pound Hall 202 following a speech on constitutional law instruction, he was confronted in the corridor by chanting students. Most of the protesters donned black hoods to reference the hooded prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The human rights groups that organized the protest also accused the Federalist Society—the conservative law and policy organization that hosted the event—of closing the event to the public “in order to hide a speaker with a toxic reputation.”The Society responded that it is commonplace for organizations to hold closed...