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...decipher the typical Cognac label, join the club. It will help to know, however, that VS is the youngest category, which most connoisseurs skip (or relegate to the punch bowl). V.S.O.P., or R??serve, Cognacs contain spirits at least 41/2 years old. While this can be a pleasant category, for gifting you will want to upgrade to Napoléon, Impérial, Hors d'âge, Vieille R??serve, Vernerable or X.O. These are all terms used for older Cognacs in which the youngest spirits are at least 61/2 years...
...appointment of Alan Greenspan’s successor was one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency. Given the array of possibilities, we are surprisingly satisfied with Bush’s latest appointment of Ben S. Bernanke ’75. Bernanke’s r??©sume is impressive. After graduating summa cum laude from the College, he received his Ph.D. at MIT and taught at Stanford and Princeton. Widely known as an expert on monetary policy, Bernanke served as a Fed governor for two years, and for the past 10 months has been chairman of the Council...
Hilles Library I loved. That palace of glass, that heirloom of Radcliffe, eyrie of learning, bastion of browsing, birthdom of our memories, is now left decimated by the faceless hordes of Harvard College, tomes torn up for fancy r??©sumés and paper airplanes. Dark Age gargoyles, awful epigones: Weep, you undergraduates, if you have tears to spill...
...After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court by moving from what they call a "biographical phase" to an "accomplishment phase." In other words, stop debating her religion and personality and start focusing on her r??sumé as a pioneering female lawyer of the Southwest. "We got a little wrapped around the axle," an exhausted White House official said. "As the focus becomes less on who she's not and more on who she is, that's a better place...
...larger groups, and creating a fund to give money to groups that merge together.Alternatively, the College could look into establishing a Phillip Brooks House Association-like umbrella organization for non-public service groups. Such an organization could consolidate overhead costs and encourage cooperation.Finally, students need to change their r??©sumé-building and more-is-better attitudes. A large part of the reason there are so many groups is that students feel the need to hold leadership positions. But having too many leaders redoubling each other’s efforts and serving for several years means that little...