Word: politicians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...involved in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and the Crimson Key Society. He has the knowledge—he’s full of Harvard lore and claims to know what makes administrators tick. In short, he has many of the ingredients of a successful campus politician. But if historical precedent and student sentiment are any indication, he has some challenges yet to overcome. Both Schwartz and his running mate, Alneada D. Biggers ’10, are members of Final Clubs, the exclusive student groups which have a history of complicating political careers at Harvard...
...Still, there's nothing like the real thing, in festering splendor, on the Frost/Nixon DVD. Here is Tricky Dick, smiling, wheedling, lawyering like crazy to get himself exonerated on a technicality, until he realizes that this isn't a courtroom, it's a TV show. Like any politician, Nixon was an actor - a bad actor, to be sure, but a great bad actor, in that he let the camera's surgical close-ups reveal more than he wanted to display, and sometimes the exact opposite of what he was trying to say. The performance is infuriating and hilarious, or unbearably...
...similar anti-gay marriage legislation in Arizona and Florida. Considering this political climate, the release of director Gus Van Sant’s new film, “Milk”—which chronicles the final eight years of the life of Harvey Milk, an openly gay politician in California in the 1970s—seems appropriate. “Milk” shows us how far we have come, but also how far we still have to go. Harvey Milk, played by Oscar winner Sean Penn, is a man disturbed by the discrimination he experiences after coming...
Near as I can tell, these guys are all dressed up for battle with no one to fight. Who are these latter-day Hooverites? What prominent economist is out there opposing a stimulus? What politician has said he or she will pass up the opportunity to vote for spending a few hundred billion in a big hurry? Harvard professor Gregory Mankiw, who chaired George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, noted puckishly in the New York Times that he has children, whereas John Maynard Keynes--the intellectual godfather of the idea that government spending can jolt...
...biggest shock was Luxuria's victory last week. In a run-off against Rodriguez, the politician won the support of 56% of viewers. In a country where the Catholic Church still weighs heavily in public life, and which boasts some of Europe's most restrictive policies against gay unions and assisted fertility, Luxuria hailed her victory as a sign that "Italians are far ahead of their politicians...