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...charming platitudes to a crowd whose interests he undercuts—while at the same time empathizing with their position better than the overwhelming majority around here—epitomizes the weirdness of his job and his performance, that bizarre quality that has him no doubt parading around his mansion with a New Year’s buzzer in his hand...
...charming in our interviews. He wasn’t helpful, though he was cordial and occasionally asked the obligatory questions about what we were up to for the summer. I can’t think of a student event that has been held in his Harvard mansion in my four years. He gave up teaching, real scholarship of his own and interaction with young minds, in order to administer, to dean and to talk about how great universities are. I wonder if any member of our class has ever been invited there. I wonder how many students’ names...
...shoulder. But, like McCain, Jeffords won a visit to the White House instead, for a meeting on education policy. Even Daschle received the new soap- suds treatment. For plotting the defection that embarrassed the president, Daschle, too, is being rewarded with a dinner at the nation's most famous mansion. Like McCain, he might want to bring his own food-testers...
...other day. We put out on the Hudson River just below Rhinecliff, to spend a quiet afternoon - a noiseless afternoon on windless water - sliding north under low clouds towards the Esopus lighthouse. On the west bank stood a Catholic monastery and on the east bank, Bob Guccione's mansion, so that you might say our course represented the Middle...
...When Rudy gets mad, he gets even. Just ask the people he's sent packing. Think of Hanover as former police commissioner William Bratton or as a squeegee man. Hanover doesn't want the kids to meet Judi at Gracie Mansion? Well, then, she's got a warped agenda and "doesn't care what happens to the children." Felder let it be known that Giuliani has to sleep in the den, with the bath down the hall, where he runs as many as eight times a night to vomit while his wife lives like a queen in the master bedroom...