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...Subject narcissstically Googled self, and ceased when he came across unflattering remark on friend Josh Peterson's blog about his recent "nails-on-a-chalkboard" karaoke rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." (N.B.: Our mole was present at the performance, and confirms that the subject's tone-deaf singing was "excessively painful" and "should be forbidden by the Geneva Conventions...
...erroneous, claim to justify the invasion of Iraq. Tenet, Suskind says, was stunned to read what he had purportedly told the President when he saw an excerpt from the book in the Washington Post in April 2004. While the President wasn't quoted as a source for that remark, he had been interviewed by Woodward for the book. Tenet "wondered how the President could recall so clearly something Tenet himself didn't remember saying," Susskind writes, and felt the White House was setting him up as a "fall guy" for the bad intelligence that many in the CIA believed came...
...country is important and that our country is best served when great universities like Harvard stand with those who defend the freedom that makes all our contributions possible," Summers said today through his spokesman. "I look forward to the day when it is common and doesn't draw remark when an Ivy League president attends an ROTC commissioning ceremony...
...Mansfield ’53 offered a comment that was as notable for its arrogance as it was for its disregard for undergraduate education: “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” This remark was particularly stunning in light of Mansfield’s comments nearly a year earlier in response to surveys indicating students’ dissatisfaction with the quality of their academic experience: “Nobody can say that Harvard students are complacent. I think their intelligence makes them critical...
...Busby's chances may have been hurt last weekend when she made comments to a predominently Hispanic audience that voters didn't need identity papers to vote. Republicans jumped on her remark, saying it indicated that she wanted illegals to vote, a charge Busby denies. But immigration remains a huge issue in this border region. Bilbray has aligned himself with House conservatives who are opposing the President's immigration reform plan, with its path to citizenship and guest worker program. In fact, Bilbray's adamant opposition to the bill led Sen. John McCain, one of the President's champions...