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...very honored to be able to go and be able to represent Harvard in Washington," she said. "I felt that my role there was to represent Harvard and also to represent a greater body of undergraduates who were being enabled to attend school through the federal loan program...
...afternoon, the students spent about an hour and a half in the White House, half of that time in the Oval Office, where Clinton held a press conference. Secretary of Education Richard Riley presented Clinton with a report saying that loan defaults have decreased, and the President followed with a short speech on expanding access to higher education...
Pooley wrote that Hillary Clinton alienated many Americans "because she seemed not to realize that the citizenry expects its powerful leaders, male and female, to show the humility befitting those whose authority is merely on loan." I have never heard that requirement of powerful men. Do we ask humility of Newt Gingrich? Teddy Kennedy? And why should she be humble? The Hillary Clinton I know (we were college classmates) is an amazing blend of intelligence, charm, ambition, energy and thoughtfulness. How sad that we have made her feel as if she should put a bag over her head and hide...
Even though Charles Keating spent 4 1/2 years in prison for his starring role in the $3.4 billion collapse of Lincoln Savings & Loan, the poster boy for the 1980s S&L scandals that cost taxpayers nearly $500 billion was still able to thumb his nose at prosecutors last week...
...angels looked this good and dressed this baaad, it would be as hard to get into heaven as into an all-star rap concert. Denzel Washington, an angel on loan to a fretful preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his pretty wife (Whitney Houston), is really here to sell the miracle of star quality. In his gorgeous silver three-piece suit, Washington makes niceness sexy. His fellow teachers in this charm-school film are Houston, with her 60 beautiful teeth; old pro Jenifer Lewis as the requisite sassy grandma and, in the Grinch role, Gregory Hines, his magnificently phony smile romanticizing...