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Perusing “Ask The White House” the other day, I learned that Assistant Treasury Secretary Rob Nichols thinks Betty Rubble is a hottie. The Bush administration launched “Ask The White House” (www.whitehouse.gov/ask/) last April, with characteristic failure to anticipate the consequences of its actions. The interactive site is part Ari Fleischer and part Strong Bad: The American people submit generally incoherent and ungrammatical questions by e-mail, and then the administration official of the day attempts to answer them. Wholly unintended mirth ensues...
...American people—all of us—are nuts. And Rob Nichols thinks Betty is hotter than Wilma. But then, who doesn’t? What really disturbed me about “Ask The White House” were the occasional glimmers of the Bush officials’ insanity...
...according to Rob Grogan, manager of Harvard Recycling and Waste Management, the program also saved the College $120,000 last year through water and energy conservation campaigns as well as waste reduction efforts...
...undergraduate curriculum to focus on problems relevant to developing countries. But there is much more that can be done. Educating students and officials within institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Government and the World Bank, about the ways in which global trade policies continue to rob the poor would be a fine start. Summers must wake up from the rosy matrix of optimism. He must confront the consequences of our selfish policies on the developing world—before the people he wishes to help die from poverty and infectious diseases...
...group hadn’t skated together for any substantial length of time before, and didn’t even begin the weekend together. Senior Rob Fried was slated to go with longtime pass-pals Cavanagh and Pettit, but everything changed early Friday night, when senior second-line wing Kenny Turano went down with a ankle broken in two places that will likely require surgery and a three-month rehabilitation...