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...Meanwhile, holding the people who cover you in such low regard makes it more difficult for the Clintons to persuade fair-minded journalists of just about anything. If the press isn't worthy of any respect, then there's no reason not to manipulate it with impunity - but no important journalist wants to be manipulated. You can scold Ted Koppel for chasing trash - once - but you pay a price when the "trash" turns out to be true. No one likes being played for a chump...
...compromise academic standards to admit those athletes” who will bring home a trophy. College football playoffs are a particular concern because the money and prioritization inherent in pursuing excellence in this most glamorous of sports can easily compromise a school’s mission. In this respect specifically, football differs from the other 40 sports offered at Harvard: The money spent and made in this billion-dollar business, together with the number of athletes who must be recruited to field a team (last season’s roster exceeded 100 players), form a set of strains...
Eliot House Master Lino Pertile wrote in an e-mail that he was delighted by the fact that Adams residents would treat Eliot floor mats with such respect, hanging them like “Bayeux Tapestry” in their dining hall...
...diligent junior high civics student can tell you that the executive is constitutionally the weakest branch of government. But a rhetorically adept president can leverage public support to drive through groundbreaking bills that are too risky for individual legislators to try and pass on their own. In this respect, an Obama presidency might better mirror Lyndon Johnson’s role in pushing through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than the anemic gestures towards civil rights made by the Kennedy White House. Senator Obama’s ability to rally the public troops—call it inspiration, charisma...
...mean Medvedev will have broad authority. True, since the fall of the Soviet Union, power has been centered in the office of the President. Boris Yeltsin was flawed and ineffective, yet held significant powers. Putin inherited them, enhanced them, and transformed the presidency into a source of pride and respect for many Russians. It didn't hurt, of course, that world prices for oil and other Russian natural resources hit sky-high levels, enabling Putin to dole out favors and goodies to lift Russia up from the chaos of the immediate post-Soviet years and secure his position...