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...seemed grand at the time, but of course the presidential inauguration dwarfed the Texas ones. It wasn't just the crowds and all the hoopla and the metal detectors and the legions of tense security forces. It was the complexity of all the loci of power represented on the podium. It seemed impossible that anyone's ear could be tuned to so much dissonance, much less, I have to admit, someone you were used to seeing at the parent-teacher night at the local high school...
...moment, it looked as if all the wire reports had been off base. This was not the press conference of a woman about to step down - this was more like a campaign appearance. But Chavez took the podium again, thanked her friends, and raged against the system in Washington. "This situation is typical of what happens in America today and what happens in politics in general." She then called herself a victim of the "politics of personal destruction...
...Chavez didn't let the press off the hook before she left the podium. "All of you have made a great deal more of this story than need be," she said pointedly, glaring at her audience. One corps member felt brave enough to bring up the subject of Zoe Baird, a Clinton nominee for attorney general, who lost that bid because of her own dubious hiring practices - and who was also criticized at the time by Chavez. The departing nominee brushed off the analogy, but others point out that Chavez's outrage at Baird's hiring of an illegal immigrant...
...wave of applause, Gusmorino took the podium and declared, "I hereby close the fall session of the 17th session of the Harvard Undergraduate Council...
...alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning and a piece...