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...play, they’re just preposterous. They pontificate; they have all the answers, as often as not the playwright acts like they do have all the answers. They’re insufferable. The level at which they are made to speak seems deeply unintelligent, so then you wonder what on earth do people think academics are if they go to these places and respond warmly to these caricatures. It’s not hostile. Even ones that are meant to be admirable, it’s like they’re always having a ‘Eureka...
...will start to come, and then this summer and then next year. And Ellen will have to look at her sullen, Ivy-bound son, and pick up his sister and little brother from wherever they are, and the four of them will have to look into the fridge and wonder what to have for dinner, as I drive home across the dark, snowy line that separates one week from the next...
...While I, as a progressive, don’t mind, I wonder what all the conservatives at Harvard are thinking,” he said...
...comes Chirac's poll triumph. Little wonder Sarkozy-backers are feeling catty. Culture Minister Christine Albanel sought to explain away Chirac's rising poll numbers and Sarkozy's dropping appeal by saying that the former president "was always very likeable, and today is rather a grandfather figure for everyone". Conservative senator Philippe Marini, meanwhile, noted that "people are always looking back to paradise lost, even if it never was paradise." Hissss...
...Blagojevich was arraigned on Tuesday has also raised questions. U.S. District Judge James Zagel, who is presiding over the case, is a Reagan appointee generally seen as prosecutor-friendly, a no-nonsense jurist who has little patience for allowing his courtroom to be turned into a circus. Some observers wonder if Fitzgerald's team shopped around for the right judge and made sure the case landed with Zagel by marrying Blagojevich's case with that of William Cellini, 74, a downstate businessman and power broker who raised money for Blagojevich and is currently under indictment - and whose case is already...