Word: pressing
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...thus that I have been entrusted with the dubious honor of writing the last Crimson column of the true millennium, a column whose subject is at the same time pre-determined and obsolete, a column of exactly one thousand words that will drop instantly from our printing press to our archives to blessed obscurity, as no one reads The Crimson on the last day before Winter Break. (Including...
...mater instead? Gore is one of 500 nominees who will be considered for the top job at Harvard University, although most suspect he will not make the final cut. "He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously," Robert G. Stone of the Harvard Corporation told the Associated Press. But, Stone continued - and here's the tough part, Al - "Gore doesn't have the academic or intellectual standing" required for the job. Ouch. Others involved in the selection process are more equivocal in their dismissals, but the message stands: Even the wonkiest politicians aren't guaranteed special treatment...
...strange moment on "Meet the Press": Off-camera in the studio, a lightbulb apparently exploded -a loud, sharp noise. Jesse Jackson thought it was a gunshot. For an instant he looked wildly to his right, eyes questioning...
...Meet the Press," Tim Russert asked Dick Gephardt three or four times whether he considered that George W. Bush would be "the legitimate President...
...started thinking about the legitimacy of Jesse Jackson. A few minutes before Gephardt, Jackson was Russert's guest on "Meet the Press." Jackson has become unelected pontifex maximus of African America. He makes the rounds of the media, dispensing what is presumed to be the outrage of all blacks at what is presumed to be their disenfranchisement. He was the leadoff voice in an op-ed symposium in the Sunday New York Times on the question, "Can Bush Mend His Party's Rift With Black America...