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...told TIME at his home. The real reason he's barred from America, he insists, is that "Chávez is a stone in the shoe of the powers that be in the U.S." In that sense, he argues, his own situation "reflects Washington's lack of respect for our sovereignty, our processes, our identity." (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered and more...
Calling Jackson a “wonderfully decent human being,” Law School professor Richard H. Fallon said he expected Jackson to share Kagan’s ability to hold the respect of a sometimes-contentious faculty that had given Harvard the moniker of “Beirut on the Charles” at one point...
...would have been honored to have our work in this monument to yellow journalism. Unfortunately, we were turned away for wearing too few scarves and thus were never able to drop off our story about the older man who visited our lemonade stand.THURJ (The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal): We respect the work you’re doing. Also, we THURJ all the time (sometimes when we don’t even mean to!), so we’re ready to come in strong.The Harvard Lampoon: On second thought…we’d like to withdraw our application; people...
...Which raises the question: What is Nancy Pelosi doing pranking America? In a nutshell, her handlers know a Rickroll video has a far better chance of going viral (and being written about here, for instance) than a generic "Welcome to Congress on YouTube" video like this one. In that respect, it reflects relatively sophisticated understanding of how the modern Internet works for an elected public official. The Rickroll "video was aimed at attracting more attention to the YouTube channel for Congress," admits Pelosi's press secretary Drew Hammill. (The new YouTube channels launched Jan. 12 pull together all the various...
These days, House Transportation and Infrastructure chairman Oberstar is flacking a Rebuild America plan that pays new respect to transit, but it still puts highways first; you can't expect too much reform from a guy who's served as a staffer or member of Capitol Hill's prime pork committee since 1963, a guy who earmarked a $3 million highway in the last transportation bill to relieve the notorious congestion between County Road 565 in Hoyt Lakes, Minn., and the intersection of Highways 21 and 70 in Babbitt. Meanwhile, states like Alabama, Kansas and Texas have been releasing lists...