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...bright enough to think creatively [Oct. 27]. I completely agree with Michael Kinsley that America needs a smart President for the tough years ahead. But voters in many Western democracies, Ireland included, have a tendency to shy away from politicians who are far more intelligent than themselves. Adlai Stevenson was one of the best examples of this. As for any politician completely understanding the global financial mess, well, sadly Einstein is not on any ballot. Robert Liffey, DUBLIN...
...Kinsley's advice to tell people "what they don't want to hear" is a recipe for disaster for any U.S. presidential candidate seeking to win votes in our rapid-fire, media-spun era of talking-points demagoguery. Adlai Stevenson, the last presidential candidate who sincerely tried to talk sense to the American people, suffered two defeats following Kinsley's advice, and the 1950s' American electorate was smarter than those immersed in today's lowest-common-denominator, Joe the Plumber world of sham politics. Our only hope is that the better candidate, Obama, can cajole people into assuring his victory...
...competitive force was seen by all who attended the matchup, as well as by those who merely looked at the decisive 4-1 score that marked the Crimson’s triumph.However, anyone lucky enough to see Harvard’s performance at Brown’s Stevenson Field would also have noticed something more remarkable than the score—the skills of the Crimson’s main offensive threat, Fucito.A perfect blend of speed and explosiveness, Fucito was especially effective against the counterattack this weekend. Offensively, he led his squad with one goal and one assist...
...Saturday afternoon, the Harvard women’s soccer team trounced the Bears 3-0 in a decisive victory at Stevenson Field in Providence. “We knew with this game that our destiny was in our hands, because we have four more Ivy teams to play,” junior Christina Hagner said. “If we win all our games, we will be in really good position to win Ivies.” With this victory over the Bears (5-5-4, 1-2-1 Ivy), the Crimson (7-3-3, 3-1) extended its winning...
...Camus, but Le Clézio has never been easy to classify. Like the writers of the nouveau roman, he struggles with language itself and the ways contemporary life have drained it of meaning; he has often stated that his favorite novelists are James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson. Le proces-verbal was short-listed for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot, and Le Clézio has been in the front rank of French literature ever since...