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...titles of the magazine's officers may be satirical, but any intelligent reader knows immediately that the powerplay of advisors is not. That all-star lineup is indicative of this publication's love of hierarchy and invoking authority. Worse, I hope the statement "something as innocuous as a magazine for undergraduate scholarship" is also an attempt as humor. What's harmless about the way we think, or the structures we use to display that thought, or the values we assign to one kind of thought over another? It seems to me deadly. To try to say this thought is innocuous...
Harvard seized the lead early, notching two quick goals. The Crimson's Kristan Johnson and Annie Wilson lit the scoreboard, before MIT's Lisa Fried punched in a powerplay goal--her first of three...
Withy and Fried exchanged powerplay goals for a 9-7 score before Wilson, displaying great finesse, spun past her defenders and pumped one into the corner of the net. Withy added an insurance goal for the 11-7 final...
...Powerplay, Cunningham...
...Powerplay might be better subtitled Everybody in the World Against Me. Cunningham, for example, bitterly denounces Bendix Board Members Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, for trying to nudge her out. She quotes Rumsfeld as telling Agee, "All right. So you piddled on the floor. But you don't have to have your face wiped in it. She's got to go." Cunningham charges W. Michael Blumenthal, former Bendix chairman and Treasury Secretary under Jimmy Carter, with spreading malicious gossip. She writes that Blumenthal remarked to Bendix Board...