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This article is my Parting Shot—my last hurrah in the pages of The Crimson. My final jab at the inexplicable ways of the College. My definitive stump before I plunge into the real world. And my goodbye. Unfortunately, this is more daunting than one would believe. As anyone with whom I have parted ways can attest, goodbyes are not exactly my forte. In fact, I am terrible at them...
...just because the University president has stolen “C-minus’s” stump speech is that reason to give the vacuous hysteria over grade inflation any more credence? Lower may have one-upped “C-minus” in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation...
Gephardt made time in New Hampshire to stump for John Kacavas, who was running for a spot on the state's executive council. Kacavas had other out-of-state supporters: Senators John Edwards, Lieberman and Kerry, as well as Vermont Governor Howard Dean. (Kacavas lost anyway.) Party activists, too, are making new friends. When Debra Crapo, vice chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, got home from a Gephardt event two weeks ago, she found a message on her answering machine from a political operative for Edwards, just checking in. Edwards had already written a note to Crapo's husband...
...Gephardt made time in New Hampshire to stump for John Kacavas, who was running for a spot on the state's executive council. Kacavas had other out-of-state supporters: Senators John Edwards, Lieberman and Kerry, as well as Vermont Governor Howard Dean. (Kacavas lost anyway.) Party activists, too, are making new friends. When Debra Crapo, vice chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, got home from a Gephardt event two weeks ago, she found a message on her answering machine from a political operative for Edwards, just checking in. Edwards had already written a note to Crapo's husband...
...staff planning Richard Riordan's run for California Governor had a three-pronged strategy. They wanted their candidate to attack Democratic Governor Gray Davis on the economy, lack of fiscal discipline in the state budget, and education - all Davis weaknesses. So what did Riordan do on the stump? He only talked about gay rights, abortion and women. Which party's nomination was he running for? And why was his campaign focused on Gray Davis during the primary...