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...TIME:You were appointed the country's first female White House press secretary. Yet you were stiffed when it came to proper pay, authority and even the press secretary's rightful office. When you went to argue for a raise, [then chief of staff] Leon Panetta told you you didn't deserve what a male colleague of lower rank made because you weren't a man supporting a family. Would that have happened if a woman was your boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...understood that one must first have the benefit of intelligence before maligning the intelligent. As for elitism, he was an aristocrat par excellence, fond of Bach and sailing, and is rumored to have taken his yacht outside of U.S. waters so that he could smoke pot while preserving a proper conservative’s deference...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: The End of an Era | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...keep the beat: Harvard students are not particularly graceful with their bodies. But Friday night’s attendees are to be commended for their willingness to disregard the gin-soaked naysayers and let down their hair. At the very least, the Underground Rave is proof positive that proper dancing rivals any drunk. Steven A. Franklin ’10 counts himself among the converted. The rave was not his typical scene; that usually involves some combination of Pizza Ring, PBR, and “Family Guy” DVDs. But he was all smiles when I caught up with...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Night a DJ Saved Our Lives | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...able to legitimately claim that it represents the wishes of the student body. The resolution, which is intended to protect the UC’s interests, illustrates the UC’s main failure: its inability to transcend its own interests as a student group to become a proper student government. Ideally, a student government should not have any interests of its own. Representatives to the UC are elected not to further promote or protect the institutional interests of the UC but rather to represent the interests of the student body. If the UC interests in fact coincided with those...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Jury of Oneself | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...President will be to keep the American people safe. I will do whatever is required to accomplish that. I will not hesitate to act against those that would do America harm. Now, that involves maintaining the strongest military on earth, which means that we are training our troops properly and equipping them properly, and putting them on proper rotations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Faces Reality in Texas Debate | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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