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...Give me a break. Everyone here knows Harvard is an excellent and selective university; there is no need to trumpet the number of rejections while implicitly patting ourselves on the back. I would have thought The Crimson could have jettisoned its usual smug tone in the name of a slight touch of classiness. Not, I suppose, while there’s an opportunity for gratuitous self-congratulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...Senators should be prepared for late nights and votes throughout the week," Mitch McConnell said with a slight smirk Monday night as senators prepared to apply their 59-41 signature to John McCain's victory on campaign finance reform. Yes, McCain finally beat the GOP leadership, in a two-week free-for-all that the leadership grudgingly granted him but no doubt considered a criminal waste of the Senate calendar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Faces Tricky Balancing Act Over Budget Bill | 4/3/2001 | See Source »

...this is small-scale stereotyping. If I really wanted to offend Harvard Asians, I might sit down and write an article in which I was, well, a tad critical of the Asian community. For instance, I might suggest that there was, let's say, a slight trend toward ethnic self-segregation, or a slight proclivity for the sciences over the humanities among Asian-Americans. And I might, if I were so inclined (not that anyone would be), get downright nasty and suggest that a large chunk of these self-segregated, math-and-science types are self-absorbed, clannish and downright...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Stereotyping Made Easy | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...core Tomb Raider fans. "I didn't want a bimbo movie all about tight costumes," says Simon. "With Angie, I can get an Oscar-winning performance in every scene, but she'll still satisfy the lust in Lara that everyone sees...She's sexy, and I think a very slight tomboy. People are also now comfortable with female action leads. People can have their cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...Well, I had never left such that I wasn't planning to go back. I was only abroad because I had gone to Switzerland to pay for my son's schooling. Three months later, on a slight detour to Los Angeles, the revolution came, and everyone told me you can't return. But I hadn't taken anything with me, so despite all the pressures, and this talk of the dangers of what would happen to me if I do, I went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Cry for Me, Iran | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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