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This column has been very mean, but it’s not going to get rid of final clubs. I can’t do that, and neither can Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68—although being the mensch he is, I’m sure he’s tried...
...other side, he's Dwayne Johnson, an amiable and quietly articulate young man with a chiseled physique. A mensch with muscles. His expression is warm, his intelligence keen. He shakes hands and signs autographs and poses for snapshots with wide-eyed kids, smiling and exuding the most perfectly innate grace and noblesse oblige you could ever want in a chair-wielding wrestler turned sword-swinging movie star...
...Harvard graduate first exhorted Summers to be a mensch, the Yiddish word for a person of integrity, and then asked him if he was going to use Harvard’s endowment for “the common good or for special interests...
...There's that old sports adage, "Today's hero is tomorrow's goat." Bill Clinton, are you listening? The media and public opinion can turn on a dime - or, in Clinton's case, on Denise Rich's dime. For the longest time, Tom Cruise was the movie star as mensch - soon, he will be seen as a self-absorbed home-wrecker. Tom, the way up and the way down are the same. And when you're falling, it's Mission Impossible to right yourself...
...Zeta-Jones, but he made sure he was at the party, handing out Dunhill cigars to one and all. Concerned about Fox, who appeared noticeably tired all evening, Douglas stole into Bender's kitchen and took some desserts up to Fox to revive his spirits. "Michael was a real mensch all night," said Jeffrey Podolsky, George magazine's entertainment editor, clearly showing that all things Jewish are now in - thanks to Joe Lieberman's historic run as the first Jew on a presidential ticket...