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...decision by the Attorney General and the FBI." Like everyone else, the White House spent the afternoon waiting and watching to see if anyone might survive. But after the smoke cleared, Clinton, never camera shy, remained in the shadows. The White House released a statement one paragraph long. "The law-enforcement agencies involved in the Waco Siege recommended the course of action pursued today," it said. "I told the Attorney General to do what she thought was right, and I stand by that decision...
Three years ago, according to The Harvard Crimson, the University was "being invaded"--and, the lead paragraph concluded with a splash of Crimson wit, "it's not by extraterrestrials...
...Confer, the Nebraska native." The one who got her own paragraph explaining that she thought Harvard was nicer than Yale because Harvard seemed to have more trees. The one who made the astute observation that while Lincoln, Nebraska, wasn't exactly a "hick town," it was "much smaller than Boston...
...junior varsity and novice heavyweights--only discussed one of the three women's races that had occurred that day, and even gave that short shrift. The article interviewed men's varsity coach Harry Parker and one oarsman, while it only quoted the varsity women's coxswain. In the final paragraph, titled "Other Crews," reporter Ahmad Atwan interviewed novice rower Terran Senftleben about the novice men's heavyweight race, which Harvard lost. Radcliffe's junior varsity and novice teams both beat Cornell University, but those races were completely ignored...
While reading her letter, I was struck by its bitter theme and almost surprised when she did not carry her argument to its logical zenith--"But MOM, I wanted to be on the Committee!" Her fourth paragraph was particularly telling when she wrote, "I applied to be on the reevaluation committee. I was not accepted." At that point, she could have chosen to proclaim her own virtues and attempted to explain why she was a strong applicant; instead, she childishly degenerated into implying that somehow ALL of the committee members are underqualified, "entrenched" pals of Mike Beys...