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...place where I am instinctively at home, even though I have been away for many years. I also feel irrationally possessive about Georgetown, having grown up there - when it was quaint and a lot cheaper, when working-class whites and blacks lived side by side with people from the State Department or the CIA, and a sprinkling of old money. We lived first in a redbrick house on R Street, across from Dumbarton Oaks, and then on N Street on the other side of Wisconsin Avenue, near 34th. Neither house cost a fraction of what Hillary will...
...four in the afternoon, Bush named three further nominees in quick succession. First, Ann Veneman, the former secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, was brought forward for the top job at the USDA. Veneman earned strong praise from California farmers' groups during her tenure in state office...
...reason to think that this year's result is anything but a fluke. In the last 10 years, following fairly strict endorsement criteria, Harvard College has nominated 458 candidates for the U.S. Rhodes, 44 of whom have been fortunate enough to win. In this same decade, U.S. state committees have considered over 10,000 candidates from 350 colleges and universities. That one school's students should fare so well, and do so consistently over time, is truly remarkable in this context...
Incidentally, prior to 1991-92, Harvard followed an extremely liberal endorsement philosophy, with no discernible difference in end results. The shift to a tighter policy that year reflected changed thinking here prompted in part by pressure from state and district Rhodes committees, but we have managed, on average, to endorse nearly half of our applicants since then...
...their Communist Party provoked civil war, unleashed Red terror or ordered collectivization, which resulted in mass exiles, executions and famines that claimed millions of lives. But accusing them of the real crimes they had committed was tantamount to self-accusation on the part of the party and the Soviet state they had so faithfully served. They were executed on the grounds of political expediency rather than on those of justice. Stalin also used their demise as an excuse for further executions, purges and repressions that lasted as long as he lived...