Word: tells
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Flores ’10, who was considered likely to announce her UC presidency bid just as FM was going to press. Andrea is short, curly-haired, and surprisingly frank. The etiquette in the Harvard political scene is very much don’t ask, don’t tell, she said. The more serious you are about a career in politics, the more that holds true—except for her. Andrea wants to be governor of New Mexico, and she said she sees no point in hiding her ambition. “I throw everyone off their game...
...When I tell him about Caleb’s “hick from west Texas” line, Alexander I. Burns ’08 chuckles and shakes his head. Alex is a friend of Caleb’s and a writer for The Politico, a Capitol Hill paper. During the Republican National Convention this summer, Alexander and Caleb were having dinner when a NBC camera descended on Caleb. The convention had been canceled that day because of Hurricane Gustav, and an NBC reporter asked Caleb, a Republican delegate, “Are you looking forward to getting things...
...another student wants to be president is, at best, a back-handed compliment. It’s like sticking a sign to someone’s back that reads “hubris.” When I talk to some of Caleb’s closest friends, they tell me the campus rumors about Caleb’s presidential ambitions are unfair. He’s never told them he wants to be president, and they don’t think he’s hiding anything. “A lot of people…will say that...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone...
...here with a how-to guide for section survival, allowing postulating alter ego to remain in its rightful place. 1) Talking about the reading in a book you’ve never touched: Take a sentence anyone else has said and note that you find some inherent contradiction. Tell everyone you’ve got to find this other passage that corroborates your point. “I’ll get back to you guys when I find it.” Helpful and smart? Someone’s getting an A. 2) Not strangling the person who?...