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What's so great about an hour of political gobblety-gook (beside Rob Lowe's incredible good looks)? First and foremost, "West Wing" maintains an incredibly high level of substantive content. In the 40-some-odd minutes of actual airtime, one finds more quality political discussion than could be gleaned from four and a half uninterrupted hours of presidential contender sparring; and unlike Gush and Bore, "West Wing" characters tend not to rehash the same old generalizations week after week after week...
...only gripe with the parking rules concerns my desire, on the odd occasion, to bring a car to the office on weekends for goods-hauling purposes," Caves says. "There are parking spaces available all over, but Harvard nonetheless requires purchase in advance...
...country is in a strange mood, filled with unease, and an odd passivity. At one time, a terrorist attack on an American destroyer, killing American sailors, would have brought an explosion of outrage, cries for revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What...
This much we've learned: Jim Lehrer is no Regis. W.'s laugh sounds even rougher when it comes over 40-odd loudspeakers in a room of 1,600 reporters. And how can a man married to a teacher possibly use the term "paperwork filler-outer...
...Harvard social scene is a little odd. Nobody shows up for parties until 11 p.m. and then they complain when the bashes shut down at 1 a.m. Lucien Smith and his Republican Club single-handedly ruin every major event on campus by publishing a party email...