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Last and perhaps most important, I need to find myself an attractive, photogenic and affable trophy wife for those 30-second commercials, not to mention for the cocktail parties, photo-ops, campaign rallies and, of course, my personal enjoyment. Knowing that anywhere from 10 to 12 people are reading this (including maybe three or four women), I want to take advantage of this opportunity to advertise the open position of Mrs. Daniel E. Fernandez...
...Fernandez, this is a ridiculously ill-conceived idea, not to mention a shoddily-written essay. You should be ashamed of yourself. On behalf of the reading public, I demand a thorough apology and call upon the editors of this magazine to publicly castigate...
...months of this century. This looting was not even the crime of the week. (That dubious award might go to the slaughter of three hundred and fifty people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.) Hundreds of Iraqi civilians died in the invasion of Iraq, not to mention the thousands who disappeared under Saddam Hussein’s despotic rule. Crime of the century? There is nothing poetic about this hyperbole; it is an outright insult to humanity...
Around 3 a.m., Rebecca returned—with a guy. She asked Ellie to go to her friend’s common room for a while, saying the two needed to talk. What she neglected to mention, Ellie recalls, is that “I wouldn’t be able to come back.” This became evident only when the other prefrosh staying with Rebecca loudly demanded to be let back in. According to Ellie, Rebecca simply “took all the bedding and just threw it out the door.” Welcome to Harvard...
...January, McHugh and members of his panel interviewed reservists on duty in Europe, and what they heard was sobering. The reservists said their status is becoming a liability with employers, and some have begun to omit any mention of their service in their r?sum?s. They complained that their families are not treated like those of active military personnel. When reservists sign up for a second year in Europe, for instance, they have to pay tuition to send their children to schools on military bases, and when their families come to visit, they are not eligible for the free travel afforded...