Word: run
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...bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
...that I have a few more years under my belt, I have to admit my vote is with Bob. Forget about being nuts, you've got to be crazy to run for President of the United States. Maybe it would be easier to lead another country, especially one that wasn't such an integral part of world affairs or whose economy didn't have global influence. In addition, I can't imagine any group of people being more difficult to lead than American citizens. Our cynicism abounds. Fickleness prevails. Irony thrives. Opinions shift. And we love to criticize. In response...
Before Americans were content to watch the President in his fishbowl, open for public view. Now the President is shoved under an X-ray machine and thrown onto a psychiatrist's couch, bringing his most personal details ("Boxers or briefs, Mr. Clinton?") under scrutiny. Maybe to run for President, you have to be an exibitionist. Or at least you have to be nuts...
Jordana R. Lewis '02, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Eliot House. She has no plans to run for public office. At this time...
Freshman Dave Lingman, on the other hand, was anything but nervous. Unseeded and in the middle of the pack on the Harvard team, Lingman had a great run through the tournament. In the first round, he defeated Jay Bruner of Virginia Tech in straight sets. Then after a tough 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 second round victory over Akshay Jagdale of Rutgers, Lingman made his big upset...