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...switch? "The facts changed and the situation worsened," Paulson said during the Q&A. He kept coming back to that phrase, "the facts changed," in what seemed to be a conscious reference to economist John Maynard Keynes' famous line, "When the facts change, I change my mind." As Paulson put it in an answer to another question, "I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change...
...John Harvard was Jewish, Ruback replied, “I assume not.” But who cares? Any excuse is a good excuse to get together and party with the Hillel community, especially when it stays PG-13. Harvard would have been proud. “We kept the grinding under control,” said Silverman. And as was written by the entrance to the party: “John Harvard, today you are a man. Mazel tov! Love, Lisa.” Mazel tov indeed, Harvard...
...then running for the House or the Senate, and finally the presidency. “When you say the House of Representatives—locally here?” Bumatai asked. “Um, I was thinking on the national level,” Chris said. Bumatai kept clapping and guffawing at Chris’ answers, but the host’s teasing was underlaid with a sense almost of wonder. Could this kid be for real? “I’ve actually wanted to be president since I’ve been about three years...
...still thought he could be president. Caleb L. Weatherl ’10 had been president of the Harvard Republican Club as a sophomore. He wrote occasional political pieces as a member of The Crimson’s editorial board. I had never met him, but I kept hearing his name, prefaced, as if by Homeric epithet, by “that guy who wants to be president.” One night last spring, it even happened on the shuttle. “This kid in my tutorial, he’s really smart, he has like...
...Administration's track record, no one ought to have been surprised when much of the Middle East raised a skeptical eyebrow in response to Washington's claim that the Syrian site bombed by Israeli warplanes in September of 2007 was part of a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. The Israelis kept mum about their reasons for attacking the site, but the U.S. let it be known that the target was a secret nuclear reactor being built with North Korean assistance - a claim that was widely viewed through the prism of false U.S. claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction...