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...petition created by Hadaway, fellow co-chair Rafael A.P. Miranda ’09, and HoCo executive Krista E. Weiss ’09 follows an Undergraduate Council meeting two weeks ago that featured a discussion between students and HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley and HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. Hadaway said that the meeting had been informative for students, adding that HUPD has always been supportive of maintaining Quadlings’ safety. The petition’s intended recipients, Hadaway said, are members of University administration. When asked if she believed the administration...
...action is ultimately uninspiring because it isn’t fresh. The title of one chapter, “The really scary stuff we already know,” would have been better suited on the cover than on page 117.—Staff writer Erin F. Riley can be reached at eriley@fas.harvard.edu...
...Riley: Two other examples: with Richard Nixon, I mean, it's impossible to think about Watergate without thinking about Nixon's temperament, his sort of dark sense of enemies everywhere. And Bill Clinton--[his] failure was a deeply personal failure with Monica Lewinsky, and it's a failure of discipline. I mean, this is a man who knew that ... for years there were people out to get him, and he, even in that environment, didn't have the personal discipline necessary to avoid creating a problem that ... for all of history will...
...Riley: [Clinton] knew this was a wrong thing to do. All right, that's a character failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around...
...Riley: I didn't hear the first presidential debate--I was coming back from abroad--but I saw a picture of [Obama and McCain] afterward ... I thought, This is an interesting example of a case where you would sort of want to see both of those personalities or temperaments blended together. You've got a kind of a hot and a cold, and maybe this is an example where the framers of the original Constitution had it right and the framers of the 12th Amendment had it wrong. Before we adopted the 12th Amendment, the President was the candidate...