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...30th Guard of The Harvard Crimson. FDR was probably chosen for the Crimson presidency (after getting turned down by the Porcellian Club, by the way) in a smoke-filled room where a half-dozen prematurely crusty white men named Lowell, Cabot and Adams (and maybe one named Goldberg) drank sherry and flipped a silver dollar to pick the next leader of their getting-to-be-venerable organization before heading home to be “sucked foolish” (to quote the Secret Court scrutiny) by various members of the Lampoon...
...honoring these efforts, however, does not preclude acknowledging some weaknesses or mistakes. Langewiesche certainly does not view the Sept. 11 rescue efforts through rose-colored lenses, nor should he; many find his evidence and research to be compelling, including the New York Times’ book reviewer Jeffrey Goldberg, who calls Langewiesche’s work, “truth unclouded by sentiment...
...Steve Martin accomplished all with aplomb, and thus has been tapped to be host of the 75th-anniversary broadcast in March. Martin's appointment should cheer those who have had enough of Billy Crystal's opening medleys and of sitting through the applause for each of Whoopi Goldberg's costume changes. Martin, whose next film, Bringing Down the House, is due next spring, said in a statement that he was excited to be the host again "because fear and nausea always make me lose weight...
...Goldberg sent out an e-mail to her students encouraging them not to attend the lecture, and asking them to contact the English department to protest the speech...
...think that the English department was genuinely unwitting, and that they acted responsibly in the situation,” Goldberg said...