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...race in the Hood Trophy at Tufts, but, as was the case at Boston University, the weather was not a friend to the Crimson. Harvard finished ninth overall in the regatta, placing tenth in the A-division and eighth in the B-division. The competition was characterized by a lack of wind, which only allowed for three races—the minimum amount required for a regatta to count—to be completed. “[We were] not very happy with the result,” junior Drew Robb said. Skipper Robb and freshman crew Annie DeAngelo placed...
...blame but her male handlers? It can't possibly be her choice. One suspects she would love to take the liberal media on, given the chance." But Dahlia Lithwick counters that this argument diminishes Palin just as much. "Why do we keep talking about women as though they lack any agency? Are we really going to condemn the McCain campaign for treating her as an object, with demands that they "free" her? I understand why smart women in the media are enraged with Palin's refusal to engage them. It's appalling. But I don't think it's good...
...more worrisome responses were the ones that betrayed her lack of curiosity about current events and reliance on bumper-sticker wisdom over complex thoughts. There were moments, in fact, in which you wondered whether she had been paying any meaningful attention to the world outside Alaska before McCain picked her as his running mate a month ago. (See photos of Sarah Palin on the campaign trail here...
...Here was Obama: "It is wholly unreasonable to expect that American taxpayers would or should hand this Administration or any Administration a $700 billion blank check with absolutely no oversight or conditions when a lack of oversight in Washington and on Wall Street is exactly what got us into this mess...
...Galston and Kamarck argue that the next President should start simple and build gradually on success, although they do acknowledge, "When an ambivalent public is demanding large changes even as it mistrusts government as the agent of change, patient incrementalism can convey the impression of weakness and lack of purpose...