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...Grinch. I’m blond and generally pretty happy. I also get the whole Jesus thing, and think it’s okay that he gets a holiday. But is it really necessary to start blasting “Silent Night” while I’m literally still digesting Thanksgiving dinner? The little drummer boy needs to cool his jets at least until the first snowfall...
...campaigns. Charles T. James ’09-’10 and Max H. Y. Wong ’10 are focusing on bringing real change to Washing— Oh, sorry, we mean the UC. “You usually see the same thing: a ticket claiming experience and increased transparency and another one saying the UC isn’t relevant to students and we need to rip the structure apart,” James says. “I was getting tired of that because it doesn’t really change anything...
Wise said he first discussed coming to Harvard to talk about race several months ago. “A funny thing happened on the way to Harvard Law School,” he said, jokingly referencing the election of President-elect Barack Obama. “So now, racism is over. Thank you for coming and good night...
...seat to the highest bidder. But for politicians, it's never good news when a top-notch prosecutor has to go out of his way to distance them from a front-page scandal. And indeed, there are enough connections between the worlds of Blagojevich and Obama that the whole thing has the potential to grow beyond a colorful Chicago tale of corruption to entangle members of the presidential transition team, test Obama's carefully cultivated reformist image and distract the President-elect just as he is preparing to take office...
...Chicago, which is based on wiretapped conversations. In a discussion with his deputy governor on Nov. 5, Blagojevich talked about getting an ambassadorship or a Cabinet position (like Secretary of Health and Human Services) in exchange for the Senate seat. The same day he said, "I've got this thing, and it's f______ golden and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f______ nothing. I'm not gonna...