Word: simpsonitis
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Still, I'm working hard to keep an open mind, even after I get a call on Wednesday afternoon telling me about the clubs dress code. And, at 2:00 on Thursday (wearing my Bar Mitzvah best), I meet Jocelyn Simpson, the institution's surprisingly young and upbeat vice president, in the club's midtown lobby...
...just a shade older than the 14th amendment. The first thing we visit is the wood-paneled Grill Room, an area that could pass for Harvard's thirteenth dining hall. That is, except for the welcome absence of keycard swiping and trays. "And the food is better," Ms. Simpson hastens to mention...
...Simpson is reading my mind when she says, "The club feels very different from the rest of New York...you can sit and read the newspaper...and you don't feel like you're taking up someone else's table in a coffee shop." The place has been meticulously designed to feel like a luxurious embellishment of Harvard, and it works: I have the bizarre urge to plop myself down in one of the comfortable chairs and read Moby Dick from cover to cover...
...quite right as we make our way from the club bar to the barber shop to the floor of conference rooms: A staggeringly high percentage of the clientele are white men over thirty-five--80 percent is a very conservative estimate. And sure enough, without my prodding, Ms. Simpson acknowledges the imbalance. She reminds me that I've come after the peak lunch hour, and so those still in the club are mainly retirees, a group which is inevitably going to be dominated by Harvard's old guard...
...that sticks within the letter, if not the spirit, of the law -- and leaves the Clinton administration somewhat open to the charge made by Orrin Hatch, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, in Sunday?s New York Times. ?The White House,? Hatch wrote, ?appears as interested in the truth as O.J. Simpson is in finding Nicole Simpson?s killer...