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...course, as activists on left and right note when they hear such figures, the left doesn't need to organize on campuses as urgently because universities have traditionally been hospitable to liberal inquiry. "There are thousands of Young America's Foundations around the country for the left," says Daniel Flynn, director of the Campus Leadership Program at the Leadership Institute and author of the new left-bashing book Intellectual Morons. "They're called Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford...
...important to note the liberal exceptions to this trend: kids are turning left on marijuana and gay marriage. Nearly 40% of first-year students now support legalizing pot (the most since the '70s), and an astonishing 59% of 18-year-olds think same-sex couples should be able to legally wed. (Only about 30% of all Americans do.) But in the context of the other numbers, those positions may indicate a libertarian rather than leftist orientation. The Libertarian Party, which advocates minimal government interference in people's lives, has members on 306 campuses, twice the figure of 1997-98, according...
Like his predecessors, he's at the President's elbow with a Sharpie pen for autographs. But sharing Bush's love for streamlined systems, he also developed a faster thank-you-note process. Gottesman collects artifacts for a future presidential library, down to the whistles Bush blows to start the White House Easter Egg Roll. Since it's hard for the President to receive mail, Gottesman takes to work the catalogs he receives at home so that when the two have downtime on Air Force One, the President can choose running shoes and fishing gear, which Gottesman then orders online...
...Look and other publications, and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems-most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below-that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman said, "it's my own little moment of revenge...
Outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers has pocketed a thank-you note from an unlikely ally in the Bush cabinet: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who praised the former Clinton administration official for supporting the military's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Harvard...