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...These days an elitist cabal of Democratic strategists advocates abandoning the hopelessly benighted South and other states—like Ohio and Pennsylvania??that are falling behind in the new economy. But any victory they might win in this way is really quite Pyrrhic from an ideological standpoint: The yuppified Democrats would abandon labor unions and economic populism altogether, marginalize civil rights, and attract middle-to-upper class whites with a boring but effective message of competent governance. This strategic shift would only ignite another culture war, one perhaps just as divisive, fueled by the Oedipal resentment...
...star’s signature style. Backstabbing friends were not provided. This event is only the latest in a long tradition of bizarre world records in the Ivy League. For example, Harvard students held the record for the largest conductor’s baton until The University of Pennsylvania??s band debuted their own rod—over 15 feet long—at their homecoming game last October. And in 1972, a dedicated group of Harvard students set a record for the longest monopoly game, playing for 50 hours in a Currier House elevator. According...
Other Pacemaker winners include the University of Pennsylvania??s Daily Pennsylvanian, The Tech at MIT, and The Collegiate Times of Virginia Tech...
Probably the strongest denial to date has come from the University of Pennsylvania??s Amy Gutmann ’71, whose campus newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, called on her in December to come clean about her interest in moving to Harvard Yard...
...attacks that killed thousands are especially relevant for Joyce and Marshall. She was supposed to be winging her way to the Bay Area on United Airlines flight 93—which crashed in Pennsylvania??for a business trip, and he worked on the 86th floor of the South Tower. Each of them takes private delight in their soon-to-be-ex-spouse’s supposed demise: “It was nearly like the appeasement of hunger. It was a giddiness, an elation...