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Harvard has, in recent years, tumbled from the lofty climes of dynasticism to rude meritocracy. Apparently, whoever slaves over each page of text with the most ardor wins. Only the campus’s social scene maintains the admirable vestiges of ages past, wherein an arbitrary elite is permitted to exclude undesirables, leaving them to commiserate in the street over the drunken, menacing friends they might have made. The latest permutation of this base competitive construct is CEB Risk, bringing all the cold calculation of war to an already-cutthroat Cambridge...
...your back, but he wants to be informed about everything, good or bad," says Eric Cesari, a member of Sarkozy's presidential Cabinet at the Council of Hauts-de-Seine, the suburban belt outside Paris that includes his fiefdom of Neuilly. "He can be demanding, even harsh and rude, but what he wants is that you tell him the truth. He has no use for yes men." Says Jacques Gautier, Sarkozy's vice president on the Council: "You never have to wait for him to decide...
...thought the professors were unnecessarily rude to the position of faith and Christianity in several of the lectures,” Jones says. “I don’t think it was given the time it warranted...
...unusually bitter retort for a man who for years has called the media "my base." Later, on the plane to Columbia, S.C., McCain trudged to Nagourney's seat, miming an exaggeratedly shamed face. His wife Cindy had sent him to apologize for being rude, he said. "A thousand pardons," he asked. But the conversation turned into another round of the same debate. McCain had said he was sorry for not calling the press corps once he knew the King show released a transcript a few hours before it aired. That's not good enough, a reporter argued, "You told...
...people writing about women? I thought everyone had come to terms with it. And then recently there seems to be another little hoo-hah about it. I just think there are people who love it and they know they love it. And if a few people want to make rude comments about it, then that's fine. I feel I'm writing for my readers. I'm not writing for commentators...