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...finds representative of America's vindictive attitude toward incarceration. Like De Tocqueville, Lévy encounters many of the leading lights of the day: George W. Bush ("a cunning child"), Hillary Clinton (driven by the Monica Lewinsky affair, he implausibly surmises), Barack Obama (impressive in every way), Sharon Stone (angry at Bush), Warren Beatty ("intelligent and precise"), Norman Mailer (at 82, "eyes fixed on eternity"), Samuel Huntington (whose Hispanophobia alarms him) and Woody Allen who, when Lévy gets personal, snaps, "She's not my daughter." Lévy also gets personal with ordinary Americans, who charm him with...
...School deanship was a stepping stone to the presidency before. The once-and-future Harvard chief Derek C. Bok led the Law School from...
...Corporation said in an open letter on Tuesday that it would begin a search for Summers’ replacement “promptly.” Harvard’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs, Alan J. Stone, said Tuesday that he was not in a position to discuss a timetable for the appointment...
Rumors—and a scathing 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of a Wellesley Girl”—paint Wellesley as a school populated by hyper-sexualized, lonely nymphets. Or maybe it’s a school filled with aspiring desperate housewives in search of their Harvard hubbies. Or maybe it’s a school of bookworms who would rather focus on academics than waste their time on guys. Or maybe they’re all just lesbians...
Area newspapers, such as the Boston Herald, criticized Wellesley for the 11 hospitalizations that took place after the Dyke Ball, an infamous annual event that is known for its “anything goes” spirit. Rolling Stone reported that the students “routinely arrive nearly topless, or wearing only Saran Wrap or body paint (which inevitably sweats off by the end of the night).” It was what Winthrop’s Debauchery dance aspires to be. While most students would argue that 11 hospitalizations out of 3,000 guests is actually a fairly...