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...buffalo aren't usually the stuff of news, but in the last month they've become the heroes of blogs, newsgroups and fan sites, ever since YouTube posted a video that may be the hottest upload in web history that doesn't include a naked famous person or a politician saying something career-ending. The 8-min., 23-sec. clip is a three-act play of attack, counterattack and rescue shot three summers ago in Kruger National Park in South Africa and posted only this May. Since then, it has been viewed more than 3.8 million times-200,000 times...
...While the archetype of the undergraduate politician often includes a booming voice and conservative dress, Petersen eschews the high school debater aesthetic...
...This kind of name-calling that dominates politics has been bemoaned by countless political commentators—Jon Stewart has practically built a second career criticizing the nastiness of Washington debates. And many a politician has based his or her appeal on promises to end this kind of bickering...
When James F. Gilligan ’57 enrolled at Harvard as an undergraduate, he was set on becoming either a politician or a writer. He eventually graduated as an English Literature concentrator. But after graduation, Gilligan changed his career path—he decided to attend medical school, became a psychiatrist, and would devote the rest of his life to studying the causes and effects of violence and violence-related injuries...
...William Canary called the allegations "outrageous" and "the desperate act of a desperate politician." Terry Butts said, "I do not recall this telephone conversation - this whole story must have been created by a drunk fiction writer." A White House spokesman told TIME that since the case of former Governor Siegelman remained before the courts, it would have no comment...