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Take political coverage, for instance. Candidates must take especial care when uttering anything in a public forum; the efficiency with which throwaway statements are enlarged, diagrammed, and deconstructed would do the academy proud. Barack Obama’s reference in front of an Iowa crowd last year to the rising price of arugula (as opposed, one imagines, to iceberg lettuce or a nice thick T-bone) was touted by many as proof of his elitist disconnect from middle America. The official comment that John McCain was “aware of the Internet” was neatly transfigured into...
...profit with maintaining one’s integrity.“I remember talking with my father about the intersection of making money and the preservation of your reputation,” Grossman said. “He taught me that it was possible not only to be proud of your bottom line but to also be proud of the name you made for yourself through a reputation in the business community for integrity.”That lesson stayed with Grossman even after his father, who owned a packaging distribution company, died early in Grossman’s business...
...Ko’s opponent] was on fire…Beier played a solid match, but the girl was just too much for her,” Harvard coach Traci Green said. “I’m proud of the way she fought, even though she got steamrolled...
...Kissed a Girl,” Perry is not proud, and she’s not ashamed—she’s just there. “I kissed a girl and I liked it.” Period. And the people welcomed it. Perry performed the song on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” one of summer’s highest-rated shows, and on NBC’s middle-class morning favorite “Today.” There she was, prancing in hot pants before...
While we may not all be able to lock lips with celebrities, sometimes the next best thing is a lipstick mark... or in this case, a used wine glass. Our very own Nicholas A. Noyer ’09 is the proud owner of Jessica Biel’s wine glass and Justin Timberlake’s rumpled napkin, which he snagged from Daedalus after the couple finished dining there two weeks ago. Noyer had received a “spotted” text, and rushed over to the scene. After a meal occupied more by oogling than chewing...