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...campaign trail this fall, an unprecedented move for a White House press secretary. He headlined 17 fund raisers for G.O.P. candidates in the two months leading up to the midterms. Of course, it wasn't just Snow's popularity that put him on the stump. If Snow's conservative bona fides have made him as familiar to the Republican base as Bush is, Snow is also, for the moment, probably better liked. In the end, if a candidate would rather be seen with the press secretary than with the President, then you've got bigger problems than a rock-star...
...Leading in the polls is former President Daniel Ortega - the leftist Sandinista whom Nicaraguans tossed out in 1990 after he presided over a civil war-torn decade of Marxist authoritarianism and economic disaster. Ortega was a bona fide guerrilla hero who had helped lead the Sandinista insurrection that overthrew the tyrant Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. But Ortega proved to be a clueless and corrupt head of state, and after his 1990 electoral humiliation, he had looked set for the Cold War scrap heap. He failed in presidential bids in 1996 and 2001, and in 1998 his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez...
...push toward faith in charity has been the fiasco of fiascos, the one Presidential scandal that could disaffect every demographic. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Communiter Bona profundere Deum,” or, “to pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.” Maybe we should have left it at that...
...Margaret “Maggie” C. Jack ’09 started off volunteering for the Patrick campaign independently before joining the ranks as a bona fide member of the Harvard Dems. The history and science concentrator says she has “no political aspirations,” but was merely “looking for a way to get involved in student politics...
Sulmers is a fashion-conscious New York writer, but unlike never-wears-the-same-bra-twice Carrie Bradshaw, she’s a bona fide human being who shows that the price tag for fabulousness doesn’t have to cost you your rent or your sanity...