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...Bush likes to point out that he had a life before he went into politics, ran a baseball team, lived outside the bubble, made the acquaintance of "real people," though only people who have led a pretty unreal life ever refer to people as real people. His father's first race was in 1964, when George W. was already 18. Gore, on the other hand, soaked in politics from birth. His mom and dad were born poor; her bridal bouquet was an armful of weeds he scooped up on the roadside. Gore's father saw government as a means...
Titles in this show conspicuously, though ostensibly coincidentally, refer to a consciousness or mental presence. Emily Cheng's "The Most Violent of all Pleasures" and Heather Hobler-Keene's "Memory of Lost Thought" presuppose the Hegelian "Idea." Adding a gloss of abstraction, they are not merely descriptive. Yet there are no titles or names on the gallery walls, defying the instinct to seek verbal direction...
...fall-fashion season in Cambridge, and the ever sartorially-challenged John Harvard is back in the Square arrayed in the latest imperial duds. The "dud" to which I refer, of course, being the building proposed for Mt. Auburn Street between the Fox Club and J. Press (News, "Harvard Architecture Stands As a Testament To the Times...
Other rules changes under the heading of "Meeting Etiquette" call for a "courteous and respectful tone" during meetings and require members to refer to each other in the third person, rather than by direct address, and also to call one another by their last names, in order to "promote a formal atmosphere...
...easy trying to write or edit stories in the newsroom of The Harvard Crimson. Just tonight, for example, I had to listen to M. Douglas O'Malley '01 and Mark J. Ambinder '01 (as the news editors like to refer to people) quibble about who was going to win the World Series...