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Together we were the New Labor party, proper poster children for Tony Blair's ideology of inclusion. And together we faced the old guard--the old boys who treat Westminster as a clubhouse instead of a legislature. We faced them...
...sleeker, more sophisticated Elizabeth. My new standard-issue GTE Visa bought me a tastefully simple Gap wardrobe to replace the brighter colors of my more attention-getting high school garb. And I brought absolutely everything I owned to school. Every item of clothing, every photograph, every handy gadget, every poster and wall sign, because the truth is that I was terrified I wouldn't fit in. I had to have with me every possible option available so I could craft the Elizabeth I'd present to the Harvard world...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers that be will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other way to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls...
...Corzine race wouldn't have got so much notice had he not become the poster child for Money in Politics. Wary of the image, Corzine let a couple of very expensive heads roll out the door of his headquarters last Thursday for spending money on things easy to ridicule: valet parking at a dinner in urban Elizabeth, lavish events in expensive hotels with tuxedoed waiters carving prime rib, and salaries approaching a quarter-million dollars a year. Corzine didn't settle for the usual in-house opposition research but spent $200,000 instead on a Manhattan attorney who subcontracted...
...simple demand: that the Governor sit for the standardized test that will soon decide which students graduate from the state's public high schools. When an aide told them there was no time in his schedule--the test takes more than 18 hours--the students handed over a poster-size report card on the Governor's program to raise academic performance. His marks: an incomplete, a D-minus...