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...think that information is incredibly irrelevant," Melanie A. Brennand '01, a former officer of the Prefect Program. "As far as I'm concerned, everyone starts on a clean slate here...
Perlstein is a talented political writer—one whose work has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Slate and The Village Voice, among others—and his seductively colorful writing style is in full form here. The book begins with tantalizing, epic promise. From the wreckage of Goldwater’s election disaster, Perlstein tells how 10 new conservative Republican governors were elected a mere two years later, eventually leading to Reagan’s 1980 triumph and Bill Clinton’s adoption of many of Reagan’s political positions in 1995?...
...quandary of whether to arrest Milosevic, 59, had been haunting the new Serbian government of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and President Vojislav Kostunica. Their arrival in power last fall, spurred by a popular revolt against Milosevic's final attempt to steal a presidential election, was not a complete clean slate. Both men are reluctant to send Milosevic and other indicted war criminals to the Hague. Both men too had troubling records of their own. Kostunica, hailed as an improvement on Milosevic, was seen in in 1998 before the election waving an AK-47 in Kosovo with an eerie glee...
...what's next on the slate...
...Tonight I am announcing that I will not seek reelection," said Born, adding that having a blank slate before her as she approaches her 55th birthday and her 35th anniversary is "exhilarating...