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...quality of their professional education, but an enduring adult fascination with undergraduate pedigrees remains acute in the fields I know well, such as journalism and politics, where it is still possible to achieve success through talent, luck and a good B.A. degree. For example, at the Washington Post in the early 1980s, so thick were the references to bright college days in Cambridge, Mass., that I sometimes felt I was working at the Harvard Crimson alumni association. Peggy Noonan in her best-selling White House memoir, What I Saw at the Revolution, loudly complains that her colleagues in the Reagan...
...meeting of the Hoover Institution as one who volunteered to "fall on his sword" in that 1976 campaign. But Walter Helmke, the G.O.P. candidate in 1974, says that the idea of Roush's invincibility is nonsense. "He only beat me by 8,000 votes, and that was in the post-Watergate election when Republicans did badly. When Dan ran against Roush, Gerald Ford swept Indiana for the Republicans. Ford carried...
...ceremony like this, it's important to get together for the ones who are not here," said Lloyd Haynes of the Isaac W. Taylor 2443rd post think it would be a travesty if you didn't remember...
Currently ranked seventh in the nation, Harvard could still make a post-season NCAA bid without a win against West Virginia, since the eight regional winners as well as the 12 top teams in the nation all qualify. If, however, the Crimson slips in its national rank, it will have to beat West Virginia to obtain the regional title...
Some editors were outraged when the American Society of Newspaper Editors asked members to post information about a survey of gay and lesbian journalists. "Will the next item on the bulletin board be for 'prostitute journalists' or 'cocaine journalists'?" mocked one. Last week, as several hundred ASNAE members arrived in Washington for their four-day annual meeting, the organization released the results of its survey. While most of the more than 200 respondents felt their employers were tolerant of gays, they reported widespread homophobia in the newsroom. They also judged their newspapers' coverage of gay-related issues to be mediocre...