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These legal tangles are matched by the logistical difficulties and internecine fights involved in establishing the party in every state and on every ballot. The first and harshest test will come in California, where Perot supporters must collect 890,000 signatures, or enroll 89,000 party members, by Oct. 24. It was that deadline--and restlessness in the California chapter of Perot's existing political network, United We Stand America--that forced Perot to move last week. And move he did. Perot's new party flew paid organizers into California, bought full-page ads in newspapers and set up petition...
University President Lawrence H. Summers recently faced the wrath of some of his harshest critics. No, not Maureen Dowd and the gang—the Harvard Faculty. This Tuesday’s faculty meeting featured cheers and jeers (actually, mostly jeers) from Harvard’s heavyweights. Here are a few of FM’s favorite jibes from the distinctly hostile roast...
...political move, the initiative appeared significant if only because its leader, Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, is a member of the Faculty Standing Committee on Women, which has issued some of the harshest criticisms of Summers’ remarks...
...fierce roar he appropriated in the years since his last record has been largely replaced with a coy mumble, as if he’s sleeptalking his lines from a couch in the studio instead of spitting them passionately into a mic. Just like his harshest critics, he’s a bit bored with himself, and if the apologetic “Like Toy Soldiers” is any indication, the 32year old is starting to get embarrassed of his younger self. His recent interviews, in which he sounds reflective, somber and eerily father-like, seem to support this...
...does this while reserving his harshest words for enemies—most prominently, Harvard President Summers...