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...mean, this game was close for, what, a quarter? Clearly somebody on the Quakers’ coaching staff missed the memo that despite Penn’s national ranking, home-field advantage and large margins of victory this season, they were supposed to play out another classic, down-to-the-wire Harvard-Penn game. Instead, Penn played the role of Mike Tyson to Harvard’s “Hurricane” Peter McNeeley—a much-hyped, quickly decided matchup...
...percent of upperclassmen receive the John Harvard Scholarship for having a GPA of A-minus or better the previous year, and another 48 percent receive the Harvard College Scholarship for having less than A-minus but at least a B-plus GPA,” Lewis wrote in a memo to Faculty members in advance of the meeting...
...Herald Tribune, but the Post didn't want to sell. Then the Times made like Don Corleone: it threatened to start a competing international edition and choke off any further subsidy of the Herald Tribune, which lost about $5 million last year. Graham responded with an indignant internal memo accusing the Times of "threatening the future of the newspaper and its staff." Graham concluded, however, that continued joint ownership of the Herald Tribune was "untenable." The talks ended with the Times's signing a letter of intent to buy the Post's stake in the paper for just under...
Michael Duffy's "Does Might Make it Right?" ultimately frames the debate on attacking Iraq as one about standards and the need of evidence for a pre-emptive attack [WASHINGTON MEMO, Sept. 30]. Duffy marginalizes the more important issues: the Bush Administration's hypocritical, self-serving rationale and the ignored consequences. Doesn't anyone remember President Eisenhower's eloquent warning about the military-industrial complex and its potential for misplaced power? Doesn't anyone recall the lessons of history, about how countless nations have bankrupted themselves morally and financially through the same toxic blend of paranoia, patriotism and hubris peddled...
Kennedy, Pachter said, was so impressed with Neustadt’s first book that he asked Neustadt for a memo detailing how he should make the transition into the oval office. He has affected people involved with the government—journalists and scholars alike—and has defined the extent of power and authority a president has, according to Pachter...