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...personality fights.” He suggested that President Bush may have eroded his political clout by spending more time campaigning than governing this past summer, when he toured 65 cities to push his social security plan. Lisa Davis, another fellow who worked on the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign, argued that campaigning on specific policy issues, not during the election season, can be a way of keeping the population involved in the political discourse. Although such campaigns can be executed with varying degrees of success, she said they are necessary to prevent leaders from becoming “a couple...
...Harvard: 315 Yale: 163 Edge: Harvard, though we wish we had Bill Clinton. Affiliated Nobel Prize Winners Harvard: 75 Yale: 23 Edge: Harvard; world peace. Number of sitting Supreme Court Justices educated Harvard: 6 Yale: 1 Edge: Harvard, and also a certain Yale alumnus (see Bush v. Gore, 2000). Number of U.S. Presidents educated Harvard: 7 Yale: 5 Edge: Harvard; free society. Real Estate Holdings Harvard: 4,882 acres Yale: 925 acres Edge: Harvard, but not Cambridge (think: taxes). Number of Libraries Harvard: more than 90 Yale: 22 Edge: Nerds at both institutions. Number of Library Books Harvard: about...
...Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign, concurred. Brazile, whose own family has lived in New Orleans since 1832, revealed that her marooned 75-year-old father had been rescued by two strangers passing by on a boat. ?There was a total system failure at every level of government,? she said. ?Our thanks must go to the angels who went in to help others, even when the authorities said they shouldn...
...management executive who has antagonized conservatives with his support of abortion rights. Corzine is ahead in polls and it would be considered an upset if Forrester won in the Democratic stronghold. Kerry beat Bush in the state last year, 53 percent to 46 percent, and then-Vice President Al Gore ran ahead of Bush in 2000 by an even more commanding 56 percent to 40 percent. The race has been enlivened in the final days by questions from reporters about allegations of sexual indiscretions by both men. "Rivals Try to Talk Policy, but Sex Remains Topic A," said a headline...
...alumni loyalty, there’s alumni giving.It’s because of a trust that the organizers of Eliot House’s annual spring Fête can afford to splurge on champagne fountains and ice sculptures. We Winthropians, meanwhile, content ourselves with 40s in Gore Courtyard during our own spring formal. (Not to say that there’s anything wrong with our distinctly more down-to-earth brand of revelry, but ice sculptures would be pretty cool.)It is unreasonable to expect equal development of House communities so long as there is such a great divergence...