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...running student organizations. Why is Caleb the one so frequently identified as presidential? If it’s not his own ambition, I asked, then what is it? Nobody could give me a good answer to this—Caleb least of all. If it was “preposterous?? for a 21-year-old to talk about wanting to be president, was it preposterous simply to want it? I asked Caleb. We were on the Mall, to the east of the Washington Monument. Is it okay just to want it? I asked. How would you respond...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...fact that any student organization would even think about bringing a speaker like that, who is not even trusted by his own country, is completely preposterous??Imagine if PSC and SAS and HIPJ wanted to bring a Hezbollah military commander,” Sarafa says, comparing the IAF to a Lebanese group that has attacked towns inside Israel. “Do you think Harvard would allow that...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Say You Want a Resolution? | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

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