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Conventional wisdom holds that the Abramoff lobbying scandal that engulfed Washington a year ago has fizzled. Nothing like the 60 court cases some predicted have materialized. Democrats, beset by their own ethics scandals in West Virginia and Louisiana, have all but abandoned attempts to nationalize corruption as an issue. Even last week's revelation that Abramoff had 82 contacts with Bush adviser Karl Rove registered barely a blip on the capital's political seismograph...
Seventy-seven years ago, Virginia Woolf declared that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” And for nearly 35 of those years, proponents of a women’s center, women and men both, have asked for the same tools in order to battle what they call female “marginalization” at Harvard. The newly opened Harvard College Women’s Center, and the connected offices of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, are the long-awaited products of those calls...
...window on national politics as a newsman on WHRB, the student-run radio station. I interviewed Eisenhower’s press secretary and the chief assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy ’40, and eventually Kennedy himself, first in West Virginia during the 1960 primary and then during his post-election visit for a Board of Overseers meeting. But although I came from a progressive family, I was not political, and it never occurred to me in 1956 or 1960 that I should—or that I, as an individual student, could—do anything directly...
...Sure enough, Allen delivered when he singled out Sidarth and told the crowd: “Let’s give a welcome to macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia.” Which is more offensive, referring to someone as a type of monkey or welcoming an American citizen with dark skin to America...
...Pork Trumps Scandal in West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan was supposed to be one ethically challenged incumbent that Republicans could beat. But so far, voters don't seem to agree