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...reputation for moderate political views and a self-described commitment to defending "regular people," a theme he sounded repeatedly in his formal announcement Thursday morning. Considering Edwards' personal wealth - estimated at $14 million - that line could prove a tough sell, and might, along with his former career, provide fodder for Republican attacks, but Edwards downplays his riches, emphasizing instead his hardscrabble youth as the son of a textile mill worker. He also, perhaps sensing a potential weak spot, proudly defends his experience as a trial lawyer, telling NBC the morning of his announcement, "I spent most of my adult life...
...Hall. And now, by the appearance of the protruding middle finger on his right hand, he seems to be scorning all the first-years who do. A statue of Adams has adorned the wall near the exit of the current first-year dining hall since 1935 and has been fodder for pranksters—who break off his plaster extremities—ever since...
Americans have a long tradition of running south of the border when things get sticky in the States. But on her trip to Mexico last week, BRITNEY SPEARS--who has of late suffered a tabloid-fodder breakup with 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake, and disappointing (though still pretty huge) album sales--could not leave trouble behind. She had barely left her plane when she was videotaped flipping the bird at paparazzi whom she felt were hounding her the way photographers chased Princess Diana. The real blow came at an outdoor show in Mexico City: in the middle of her fifth...
...There is solid cocktail-party fodder among these volumes, such as this assessment of the election of 1828: "Jackson's supporters accused Adams of having premarital sex with his foreign-born wife, while Adams' supporters called Jackson's mother a whore." Consider bringing such trivia to an Independence Day barbecue as a sort of hostess gift. I think we've all attended get-togethers over the last few months where the conversation devolves into a round robin of each person's imagined death scenarios and everyone leaves early to go stock up on canned goods and gas masks. The amateur...
...Pomey’s open-bar 21st birthday bash, financed by Gomes, or Pomey’s less than honest behavior as business manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and a leader in women’s social organizations—became breakfast-table reading material and dinnertime conversation fodder for students who hadn’t even known what the pair looked like until the picture of their arraignment appeared on the front page of The Crimson. Gomes and Pomey pled not guilty to the charges and will likely face trial later this year...