Word: staleness
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...southern-fried version of wrestler Jesse Ventura's 1998 unlikely gubernatorial win in Minnesota. Friedman, also running as an independent, has outpolled both Bell and Strayhorn at times, but his bad prep and repetitive one-liners ("Why the hell not?" is his campaign slogan) are beginning to seem stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw. "This is not an election. This is a moment in history," he tells supporters. "This is what Davey Crockett died...
...this is where Harvard students can find a middle ground. A little controversy can go a long way towards reinvigorating stale political issues, as long as no one gets a black...
...speech-all about taxes and terrorists-was classic Bush, a series of artfully constructed tautologies, the sort of speech that had worked brilliantly in previous campaigns but has come to seem stale and off-key. "The Democrats believe they can spend your money better than you can. We don't," he said yet again. That has been one of Bush's most cherished bits of antitax demagoguery, except now it's clear that his Republicans have been anything but prudent about spending "your" money. Worse, there is the stench of anti-Washington, know-nothingism to it-as if "your" money...
...crisp air of Harvard Yard. Venture back to your dorm and reunite with that roommate you haven’t seen in weeks. Even try Widener. Getting the most out of the library, it seems, requires leaving it. Go to the Lamont Library Café and eat some stale confections. Even have a quickie in the Microfiche wing. But for your own sake, leave the place sometime. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and science concentrator in Adams House...
Paris it was not, but at least the smell of stale beer had successfully been aired out of the Sanctum, The Crimson’s venue for parties, writers’ meetings, and—at long last—its very first fashion show...