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Back in Cambridge, HDS spokesperson Wendy McDowell said HDS Dean William A. Graham and HDS Assistant Dean for Student Life Belva B. Jordan were still waiting for any official Russian response to the letters of appeal that they sent in July...
...rules of postmodern politics. Instead of staying out of the opposing party's primary, he invaded it by spending an estimated $10 million on ads denigrating the more moderate--and therefore more threatening--candidate, former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who eventually lost to an inexperienced conservative, William Simon. "The general election was the nastiest ever," says Dan Shnur, a Republican political consultant. "More money was spent and a smaller percentage of people voted than in any gubernatorial election in state history...
...Candidate X with 10%. There will be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of candidates. All it takes is $3,000 and 150 signatures to get on the ballot. Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine has declared. Both millionaire Michael Huffington and his egregious ex-wife Arianna may run. Darrell Issa is running; William Simon seems to be. There may be one or two well-known moderates amid the flotsam--perhaps the aforementioned Riordan, for whom victory would be vengeance most sweet. But any victory is likely to be tarnished. "This could hurt Republicans nationally," says Schrag. "It could remind voters of the election...
...Tenet prompted several readers to recall the famous motto THE BUCK STOPS HERE, adopted by President Harry Truman (shown here in 1959 at the Truman presidential library in Independence, Missouri). Observed Brad Nelson of Ypsilanti, Michigan: "Unlike Truman, it seems that George W. Bush would rather pass the buck." William C. Ellerman of Silver Spring, Maryland, quipped, "By making the hapless CIA agents the fall guys, Bush signaled that THE BUCK STOPS ANYWHERE BUT HERE." And Ron Bonn of San Diego deduced, "Bush has evidently amended Truman's sign to read THE BUCK STOPS OVER THERE AT TENET'S PLACE...
...Wesley Perkins, co-developer of the social norms method and professor of sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, said that all 37 schools comprising Wechsler’s social norms pool—from which he and his colleagues drew data between 1997 and 2001—could not all have been practicing the social norms program properly...