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...Politicians, most of whom are the sort of people who take themselves too seriously, take very seriously the dangers inherent in appearing to take themselves too seriously. What made Don Imus' speech at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner front-page news was the White House suggestion that C-SPAN not rebroadcast it. That was unusual enough to meet the old city-editor test for a story: man bites dog (no special breed). Politicians are supposed to be nearly insult proof, in the way that people associated with the Mob are libel proof...
...When we signed this bill, Dean Lewis was the first dean ever to agree to give the U.C. a fairly significant amount of political capital," said Nelson, who is a Crimson editor. "But I think if the bill is going to have significant life span, then its provisions have to be treated by the council with more responsibility...
Carpenter became the Big Red's first player to win the honor this season after playing solidly over a three-game span...
...watching America go down the tubes. So what can we do during those 1,455 or so days when we're not voting? Work on a political campaign? Perhaps. But I think there are plenty of more direct ways of helping in the meantime, in that forgotten span of time between one set of PAC-and corporation-backed campaigns and ghost-written speeches and the next...
...President. "What did the organization think they were getting when they invited Imus? I fault them," said Tom Brokaw. abc's Jackie Judd, one of the dinner's organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN to ask that it not re-air the event. In a press release C-SPAN countered that the public had a right to see "what all this fuss is about." abc's Cokie Roberts, an Imus regular, said, "He always separates his raunchiness from the political part of his show...