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...couples with kids at the White House." Equally visible will be the lights burning long after midnight in the White House family quarters; Clinton's idea of a good time is staying up late playing hearts with friends or discussing Hawaii's health-care system. A valid test for the limits of presidential leadership by example will be whether the nation begins to emulate Clinton's nocturnal body clock. Aides joke that Clinton runs on "Elvis standard time," valiantly struggling to avoid any event that requires his presence before 9 a.m. Never will power breakfasts have such a militant...
Leland criticizes Jesse Cohen for not conforming to her idea, as well as Baraka's description, of what Lula (not Lulu, as appears in the review) should be. This is indeed a valid criticism, and I, as director, made a conscious decision in casting Cohen, precisely because I believed she best fit the Lula of my vision of the play I wanted to put on. But Leland doesn't criticize me for a casting error, if she believes it to be such, but instead, launches into a fairly vicious personal attack on Cohen for not being a thirty year...
June Shih's October 19 Opinion piece ("Not Big Enough for All of Us") makes valid points about problems associated with the large size of Core sections at Harvard...
...eighth grade I no longer thought that assassination was a valid method of getting rid of Republicans. Nor was I really old enough to understand why Walter Mondale inspired little excitement on the part of my Democratic parents. I do remember our Social Studies class attacking one boy who said he thought Ronald Reagan had been a good president. Only our teacher's intervention prevented actual bloodshed. After quieting us Mr. Sasnett remarked "You realize that he's the one who's in the majority in this country. The rest of us are the minority." We thought this was pretty...
...claiming that SAT scores are a valid measure of scholarly merit, Choi then implies that educational institutions such as Harvard are meritocracies, promoting merit above all else. In fact, candidates are not admitted based purely on grades and test scores as Choi would have us believe...