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...College. Forget Shakespeare in Love. Think Shakespeare in College: whatever happens, it reads as a tragedy of ludicrous and tabloidesque grandeur. We’re usually watching from afar, not with ringside seats. And here’s the secret: Harvard College students are involved in a scandal and you like it. Your classmates are falling from grace and some part of you likes it. Some part of me certainly does. The Long Strange Trip of Randy and Suzanne reveals us for what we really are—which is maybe only human...
...like to think that I don’t find this compelling. But I can’t really help it. This scandal has made scandal respectable for us somehow. To pick up The Crimson instead of pretending not to look at the tabloids at Out of Town News makes it easy to hide an appetite for titillating tidbits. In the public eye, Randy and Suzanne have become more than fellow students who might not graduate in June if the criminal case is still pending—they’re the soap opera next door...
...Afro-American studies and grade inflation among them. But this one has a special flavor all its own—a surreal quality that makes it easier for us to secretly enjoy. We have full emotional license to savor the dark details because it’s a Harvard scandal, but one that for most of us has no personal consequences. Unlike the other two cases, which arguably reflect badly on the school, Randy and Suzanne don’t really affect most of us at all. The school is officially so distanced from the case that...
...because nobody involved in the Enron mess seems ready to talk to Congress, representatives are moving away from trying to find out who to send to jail and toward discussing how to fix the real problems. The people dodging House microphones are a veritable Who's Who of the scandal: There's Lay, who resigned from Enron's board Monday night and decided not to show up before two Congressional committees Monday. Former CFO Andrew Fastow and aide Michael Kopper are expected to show up just long enough to take the Fifth. Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino is due today...
...Angeles Times poll this week revealed that an overwhelming majority of Americans would rather cancel tax cuts in the future than raid Social Security to pay for them. Democrats think that reciting dry budget forecasts won't stir up the voters, but framing the debate around the Enron scandal will. Republicans disagree, arguing the public still perceives Democrats as the big spenders and the GOP as the party of fiscal responsibility. "Enronization" won't have legs, GOP operatives assure me. "It's kind of a cute tactic," says a senior House Republican aide. "But it will be viewed more...