Word: unfairness
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Although I am sympathetic to their concerns, I have a message for those Houses afflicted with popular dining halls: tough luck. Maintaining Interhouse restrictions is unfair, disproportionately hurts Quad residents and has no place in a randomized housing environment. And whereas, say, the law school can theoretically restrict the use of its library by College students because it is a different school altogether, one House should not be able to put a "keep out" sign on common College resources...
...only is it mean-spirited and exclusive to keep non-residents out of certain House dining halls, but from an economic standpoint, it is also unfair. The money that the College and Harvard Dining Service spend on House dining halls comes from a pool of money collected from all students...
...Then, calling the President's tax plan "deeply unfair" to everyone but the wealthiest Americans, Daschle fired a warning shot at Bush's budget priorities. "When we disagree with the President, as we do on issues like Medicare and Social Security reform, we'll fight - and we'll fight hard...
...valet named Oscar who keeps Clinton supplied with diet Coke while the ex-President dials through the numbers he has entered on his new, imperfectly mastered PalmPilot, calling to justify himself to his friends. Clinton's red-faced rages over the Rich scandal have familiar themes: "setups," overzealous prosecutors, unfair legal cases that never should have gone to indictment. What is hard to figure out is whether he is playing out his reasons for pardoning a fugitive or working through his personal grudge against the legal system. Did he pardon Rich or himself by proxy? Either way, sighs a comrade...
...meteorologist might call Clinton's first month out of office a perfect storm: a freak convergence of fast-moving, late-season weather patterns, a lethal collision of the profound and the trivial. The thunderhead of accusations confirms every fair and unfair thing his enemies have ever said about him--and puts him once again in the sights of a federal prosecutor, this time U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of New York. Not only are there calls to haul him before Congress, but also they are coming from fellow Democrats who defended him through every past scandal. This time...