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...loafers after being chosen as an Oprah author. Franzen wondered out loud about having to play the writer for Oprah's "documentary" camera teams and, worse, said he did not agree with some of her earlier selections. Her famous response was to disinvite him, but the resulting spat was the most serious public challenge to her cultural authority since the box-office failure of Beloved, the 1998 film she starred in and guided to the screen. If the Franzen episode meant the book club was going to bring her grief, why bother...
...tables outside the Science Center earlier this week, students were working feverishly to collect signatures for a petition to keep Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 at Harvard. After a high-profile spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers this past fall, West has hinted that he may leave for Princeton University—where he taught before coming to Harvard—dealing a potentially devastating blow to Harvard’s vaunted Afro-American studies department...
Save for a spat over a tax on the University’s various schools to raise money for work on infrastructure, physical planning for Allston stayed off of the agenda...
...Internally, Bush's economic, foreign and trade policy advisers are warning the President that a high tariff could spark a nasty trade spat with U.S. allies. But most of his domestic and political advisers are telling him protecting U.S. steel is the right thing to do. Bush may try to split the difference with a modest tariff, but both the union and the manufacturers insist that a half-measure won't suffice. One sign that Bush takes the issue seriously: He added it to Vice President Dick Cheney's portfolio. The steelworkers will hold a rally this week in Washington...
...Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels. Democrat Kent Conrad, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, practically accused him in hearings last week of going to the Enron School of Accounting in drafting the federal budget. The other target is Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. He got into a silly spat last week with the Democrats' senior senator, Robert Byrd, over which one of them came from the humblest beginnings...