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...those.” “I’m taking five classes and writing a thesis,” Maxwell fired back in one breath. But it was too late—the mechanical whizzing of the now-full workout room was too loud. Livingstone demounted having heard nothing, and headed off to her WIB event. It occurred to me that no matter how hard Maxwell tried to make herself appear over-committed, she’d always be considered a failure in Livingstone’s mind. Livingstone, vowed to celibacy until after e-recruiting, would always...
...meat, gladly; more recently, when Palin quoted Obama out of context questioning the activities of American troops in Afghanistan, a few piped up with cries of “treason”; elsewhere, the response “kill him!” could audibly be heard. The moment the debate ended, the governor gave up totally on asking questions about how America could be, planted her feet, and antagonized anyone who doesn’t like how it already is. According to political legend, when he was told by a supporter that “every thinking...
...Truth is an aspiration, not a possession,” I heard our president pronounce on a damp and dreary October afternoon last year. My stomach turned. Before my eyes was grand old Harvard on parade, splendidly arrayed in academic robes and bonnets, in all of its pomp and pageantry, installing its new president according to the customary prescription. Yet with a few derisive words about Harvard’s Puritan heritage from Drew Gilpin Faust and her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann ’71, that visible visible continuity—between the Harvard...
...from the campus grounds, and expressed hope that turkeys would populate the Business School campus in future years. “I think those students are weak and will eventually be weeded out by natural selection,” Fredrickson joked. “I hadn’t heard of this effort to have the turkey removed. In response, I am thinking I will start raising money to support the breeding of the turkeys, so that future generations can enjoy their presence on campus.” Regardless of whether students were for or against the presence...
...claim in your book, that much of the conventional wisdom regarding Bill Clinton and sex is deeply flawed?What people don't realize, because they've heard all the jokes, you know, cigars and stuff, is that this was a true love affair. There's no question that this was a very psychologically complex relationship. Monica Lewinsky represented something very important to him psychologically. She looked like his mother, Virginia, who had recently died. Clinton kept saying how much she reminded him of his mother. Monica kept saying she felt like she was having a relationship with a lost little...