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...successful in arguing that Hill was professionally incompetent and unable to adjust to a high-powered life in Washington. He lays this failing at the door of affirmative action, perhaps forgetting that mediocrity respects no racial boundaries. Brock suggests that Hill was fired from her first job at the now-defunct law firm, Wald, Harkrader and Ross, because of incompetence and sought to camouflage this incompetence by leveling charges of sexual harassment...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Women in Washington Aren't Always Living the Easy Life | 8/13/1993 | See Source »

Maybe the Democrats need some charismatic leaders in the Congress to have a truly united liberal front. Gone are the days of Sam Rayburn, Tip O'Neill, and Robert Byrd. Maybe those politicians are just too worried about being re-elected by now-defunct Reagan Democrats. As for the "I need a new term to do even more good" excuse, it basically describes campaign rhetoric for the last hundred years...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Disillusioned by Those Democrats | 7/13/1993 | See Source »

...November 9, The Crimson ran an opinion piece by Edward F. Mulkerin III under the headline "Nothing to Complain About." The article attacked, with striking vehemence, the now-defunct proposal to grant 29 Garden St. residents priority in the housing lottery. I'm writing not to join the debate over housing, but to criticize the tone of Mulkerin's piece, and to suggest that The Crimson apply a stricter standard in the future to decide what it prints on its opinion page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offensive Tone Has No Place on the Page | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

Tall bright guy; likes math. Author of Mr. Minnesota Head. Advocate Fiction Editor. Founder of the now-defunct Tabula Rasa magazine. Slightly goofy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPART TO SERVE BETTER THY COUNTRY AND THY KIND | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

Matthew J. McDonald '92, a member of the Irish Cultural Society, said that getting tickets "is next to impossible." He recalls fondly the days when U2 was a small band. McDonald said his first cousin used to watch the band play at the now-defunct bar Metro. In those days, U2 was opening for "some faceless metal band," he said...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IRISH BAND, IN AN IRISH TOWN, ON THE MOST IRISH OF DAYS | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

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