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...Besides curbing bad behavior, Harvard fostered good morals in its men by encouraging productive activities. After the Civil War, tutors noticed that students were catcalling women in the streets or starting fires in the Yard. Such rowdiness led the Boston Post to gibe, “When a man wishes to pass for a graduate of Harvard, he has his room decorated with photographs of all the leading burlesque actresses...
...jokes, and even engage in some gallows humor. When one reporter asked about the bleak outlook for his campaign, McCain replied: "You mean, in the words of Chairman Mao, it's always darkest before it's totally black?" And as he left the event, McCain had one last gibe for the large press corps that had assembled as something of a death watch: "I look forward to the same turnout at every stop I make...
...their part, the McCain camp seems to be enjoying the attention garnered by the gibe, embracing the fact that McCain has set Romney specifically in his sights. They point out that the comment came in direct response to a question not about the immigration bill, but about Romney's positioning himself against it. (You can hear the exchange here.) Further, says McCain spokesman Brian Jones, "tonally, it was similar to 'bomb Iran'" - pointedly, a McCain gibe that received similarly mixed reviews - "He made a joke and moved on to something substantive. It was not a temper tantrum...
...blank check," saying directly that there was no such thing. He also gave a lengthy explanation of his support of U.S. Army Gen. George Casey to be Chief of Staff of the Army - despite opposition from the likes of Republican Senator John McCain - topping it with the implicit gibe that Casey was the "first choice of the professional military." Gates, a former Sovietologist, might fit the same description that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once made of newcomer Mikhail Gorbachev. He has a nice smile, but iron teeth...
KARL ROVE Suddenly, "Bush's Brain" doesn't seem like a compliment. The President told reporters after the election that Rove was winning their informal reading contest--"I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was." The gibe was met with uncomfortable chuckles. (As Homer Simpson might say, "It's funny because it's true!") Campaign workers fault Rove for getting into the game late; his vaunted "72-hour project" turned out to need more time...