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DIED. SUE SALLY HALE, 65, trailblazer for women in the clannish sport of polo; of apparently natural causes; at her polo ranch in the Coachella Valley, Calif. Beginning in the early 1950s, when women were still barred, Hale competed as "A. Jones," a mustachioed man. "Gentlemen," she liked to admonish her male-chauvinist opponents, "better boys than you have tried." Bowing in part to pressure from Hale and her friends, who vowed to publicize the fact that she had been duping them for years, the U.S. Polo Association admitted women...
...College Harry R. Lewis ’68 says that at Harvard, “very little that has to do with the organization of the arts was ever rationally designed.” The result of a mentality that relegated arts to a nice weekend activity for gentlemen, Harvard still leaves artistic endeavors primarily to the individual and the extracurricular arena...
...Peterson: And one of these gentlemen - and they are prominent people - he's a three-term council member up there and an attorney, and they saw her and they know her and the police have disregarded this. If it doesn't fit their theory, by God, they don't want to investigate it. I just can't be any more emphatic than that. And we're gonna pursue this thing...
While each is unsavory in his own way, Summers and Kissinger are both gentlemen and scholars in the Harvard tradition, combining an academic background with Washington back-door experience at the highest levels. So it is with Marty Feldstein and the Bush tax plans, and with countless other professors and affiliates. This revolving-door connection brings prestige to Washington, while at Harvard it carries a certain measure of authenticity and power. Both establishments feed off the other’s legitimizing influence and redeem each other’s foibles by providing a home for its denizens...
...Bush's speech, as they were about to move out, their battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy, addressed them: "Demonstrate to the world that there is no better friend and no worse enemy than a U.S. Marine." He added, "We've got a very grim job ahead of us, gentlemen. If the Iraqis try to fight, we'll slaughter them. This is not going to be a fair fight...