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When the elevator in William James Hall shuts, those on the inside are privy to a telling phrase, etched in the door’s metal frame by an angst-ridden student: “Harvard Sucks.” Beneath that, a retort: “No, it doesn?...
What would have otherwise been a quaint entry into Kobritz’s personal diary, however, found its way into the widely read “Talk of the Town” section of the The New Yorker. Though Kobritz’s response was intended as a witty retort to the aging president’s playful advances, she fears that it seemed less than innocent as recounted in the pages of The New Yorker. “I’m worried I came across as a tart,” says Kobritz. Kobritz’s image...
DECEMBER 2002: After seeing the State Department's retort to the Iraqis, the International Atomic Energy Agency, headed by Mohamed ElBaradei, asks the Administration for proof of the Niger allegation so it can investigate the claim. The U.S. says little for six weeks--a crucial period during which the Administration is making its case...
...Well, I want to be,” the defense lawyer was heard to retort...
...Europe. When we really want to clobber someone, we call him a Nazi or compare him to Hitler. But that doesn't play so well, as Berlusconi and Däubler-Gmelin have learned. So here is a suggestion: If Continental politicos can't think up a suitable retort of their own, why not borrow a rapier from the arsenal of American wit? There's a classic from Congressman Thomas Brackett Reed in the late 19th century, who said of two rivals that they "never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." If Berlusconi had trotted...