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...considered an endangered species,” Dowd said, “the Bushies at least have proved that our profession is more necessary than ever.” Dowd, whose columns on former President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinksy won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1999, said the Bush administration has sought to create an “alternate reality” by “spending hundreds of millions on self-aggrandizing propaganda.” And the Fourth Estate has been central to holding the White House in check, she said...
...chance to score one of Florida’s richest bitches due to incessant cuddling with his straight male roommate…SPOTTED: Spurned sorority girl rigging costume contest at Halloween party to deny her ex, who attended with another member, the glorious title of champion. Is there a prize for sad? And who are we? That’s a secret we’ll never tell…(p.s. we?...
...pwns. The game, which is a revamped version of last year’s Risk tournament sponsored by the College Events Board, will pit student armies against each other in an Ivy vs. Ivy smack down—US News & World Report rankings be damned. “The prize is being able to say that you are the top Ivy League school and that you have conquered the entire Ivy League,” said Matthew O. Brimer, one of the organizers of the tournament and a junior at Yale. “You’re not playing...
...women should be allowed to abort fetuses if genetic testing reveals they have a predisposition for homosexuality. But while Watson would be a poor choice to lead a conference on political correctness and sensitivity, he remains one of the great biologists of the 20th century. He won his Nobel Prize for playing an integral role in the discovery of DNA, not for his views on race relations; we find the suggestion advanced by some that his scientific successes should somehow be invalidated as a result—by renaming Watson-Crick nucleotide base pairing or otherwise—absurd...
...Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of DNA, and former Harvard researcher James D. Watson apologized Thursday for suggesting earlier last week that blacks tend to be less intelligent than whites. “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said,” Watson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “There is no scientific basis for such a belief.” Watson, one of the most famous biologists of the 20th century, shook the scientific community last week after his comments on race were published...