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...swimming beach in Dixon, Ill., where Reagan was a lifeguard and where, he would eventually claim, he made 77 rescues over the years: "He was deeply tan, and at least four inches taller than when I had last seen him. His chest was bigger, his legs stronger and straighter... Presently he shrugged off the top of his damp suit. The loops fell away, leaving behind pale ghosts of themselves. Midges sang...
This campus should be asking itself questions about who benefits from the homogenization of House life. Is it the students, for whom "House stereotypes" often meant a caring, tolerant community within the larger, straighter, whiter Harvard world? Or is it the administrators who no longer have to deal with the unseemly issue of self-segregation? Perhaps if the administration is intent on eradicating any semblance of a minority community in house life, they should at least ponder the idea of a cultural center. Randomization shouldn't be accepted by undergrads simply because it's the status...
Meanwhile, everyone interested in the intersection of TV and the Net is sitting straighter in his chair. South Park's low production values make it ideal for online distribution. But look down the road a few years when Net connections get faster and RealVideo-type technology improves, and you can see how easy it will be for people to give away everything from CDs to feature-length films. I figured Comedy Central would be thrombosing about this blatant theft of copyrighted material. As usual, I figured wrong...
...Saud, who rule Saudi Arabia today, have accumulated their wealth mainly by diverting huge sums, directly or indirectly, from the government's extravagant oil revenues. As a Riyadh businessman puts it, Alwaleed's branch of the Saud family tree has always been considered a little smoother and a little straighter than the rest. His father Talal, a former Ambassador to France, was one of the "free princes" who demanded democratization and went into temporary exile during the troubled 1953-64 reign of King Saud. Alwaleed's mother, Princess Mona, is the daughter of Riad Solh, the first Prime Minister...
...what there is now. This is the nadir of coverage of politics. The networks made the decision because they claim the public isn't interested, but this is a self-fulfilling prophecy and entirely self-serving. Their method...is more debased than ever. The hacks of the past were straighter than the stars of the present...