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...Senior Class Committee made history this spring when it declared that a staffer of the Harvard Lampoon is actually funny. (OK, that’s a low blow.) Elizabeth S. Widdicombe ’06—a member of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—will deliver the female Ivy Oration, the more humorous of the senior speeches, at Class Day exercises today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends...
...support for the Iraq war "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded." McCain himself seemed unfazed by the remarks, but then Rohe elaborated on her remarks in the Huffington Post, saying she was going to make McCain look like an idiot. McCain's top staffer, Mark Salter, unloaded a fusillade on The Huffington Post, denouncing the mocking students as lacking "one small fraction" of McCain's character and calling Rohe an "idiot" herself. Then Rohe, predictably, wrote a response to Salter. Back in the olden, dead-trees days, Salter might have written an op-ed column...
...pauses as if to give the listener a chance to assimilate what he has just said." It is clear when Hayden goes to Capitol Hill that he has studied his audience carefully. "He's a great PowerPoint briefer, and he speaks at their level," says a congressional intelligence staffer who has seen the general in action with lawmakers. "He has that wonderful quality of being quite likable and unpretentious. And he would work those members assiduously." In fact, he was credited with so effectively defending the National Security Agency's no-warrant wiretapping program after it was exposed in December...
...public the wrong impression of what life is like for your average Representative. Despite the fat-cat stereotype, most members of Congress are relatively unknown and not very savvy. There are hordes of them. They act all important, but they're the interns of elected officialdom. As one staffer I know put it, "The President is one man - they're hundreds of people. If Congress wants the same kind of recognition, they're going to have to figure out how to somehow form one enormous person. Think Power Rangers, but times...
...Because, of course, despite their junior-varsity mentality, Representatives have a very powerful tool at their disposal: the Constitution. They can overturn the President, amend the Constitution, and put money into the pockets of anyone who can convince them it's a good idea. As my staffer friend said, "So you have these nobodies - and believe me, there are plenty of them - who all of a sudden think they are running the country, because in a lot of ways they are." It's this power that makes them the target of lobbyists and influence peddlers, and it's their lack...