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...schedule read, "11 p.m. XPAC Rap/Jam Session, live music and special performances by Rappers: Hi-Caliber, Young Cons and many more!" Alas, the reality - as a group of young Harvard conservatives found - was an empty room with a bunch of Wii video games (XPAC was strictly nonalcoholic). As the gray-haired contingent listened to George Will explore the future of the movement and ate at a "presidential banquet" upstairs at the Marriot Wardman, where the conference was being held, the cool kids had already moved on to Adams Morgan and beyond. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...
General Mario Montoya, the Colombian Army commander, wasn't satisfied. Many of the agents looked like they were fresh out of spy school. Montoya wanted more potbellies and wrinkles. Several members of the team let their beards grow and had gray streaks added to their hair. They replaced their underwear, which was stamped with the logo of the army, sent their costumes through washing machines for a lived-in look, and filled their wallets with fake driver's licenses and foreign currency...
...Step two,” said Hurvitz, “is a gathering of friends before moving over to Ropes Gray. Possibly some drinks. More than likely some drinks. It’s still classy. To the extent that tacky can be classy, it’s still classy...
Once properly liquored up, the attendees headed to prom. Ropes Gray, a large room in Pound Hall, was covered in plastic flamingos and colored streamers. “It’s a big room with a DJ and beer and people dancing,” said Hurvitz. “There isn’t a whole lot more to it.” Sounds just like a d-hall party, minus the seven-dollar entry...
...public doesn't see shades of gray on these issues, and Obama has already retreated once on the question of civil liberties vs. security. That leaves Brennan arguing against some of the pro-civil liberties positions that Obama took on the campaign trail, while also countering new GOP positions well to the right of Bush. The White House is furiously disseminating data points to show that Obama is doing just what Bush did in the war on terrorism...