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Back home Albright has made more than a dozen out-of-town trips to talk up foreign policy with Americans or to let influential Senators show her off with constituents. Her most ardent courtship has been of Senator Jesse Helms, the Foreign Relations Committee's curmudgeonly chairman whose home state of North Carolina Albright has visited twice. During her trip there last March, she spoke at Helms' alma mater and attended a birthday dinner for his wife. When Albright boarded the Air Force jet to return to Washington, she found on her seat a bag of barbecue...
...life because people gave me a chance to perform." His high school debate coach, Eva Doupe, arranged the scholarship that sent him to debate camp his sophomore year and once spent an hour persuading the football coach that Raines should miss a game in favor of a crucial out-of-town debate tournament...
Caustic inter-collegiate skirmishes aside, let's investigate the alleged "reasons" our fair school has slipped to such depths. (Or, if you prefer a less rational approach, prepare to intercept the trucks carrying the issue to Out-of-Town News this week with a sign reading, "The People's Republic of Cambridge refuses to admit within its borders treasonous materials...
...policy extended even to out-of-town guests and parents of resident students...
...hassle really worth it? Is it worth the press secretaries and out-of-town contractors strutting around as if they own the place? Is it worth the endless sniping by high-brow media executives about the postage-stamp size of our beautiful convention center? Is it worth the hundreds of thousands of hours of effort...