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...racial climate on campus. University President Drew G. Faust created a committee to review the Harvard University Police Department’s policies following an incident involving two police officers last month.Smith has yet to select a new diversity dean. He said that he is consulting with Senior Vice Provost Judith D. Singer and other FAS officials on “how best to configure the position for success.”Government professor Susan J. Pharr will serve as chair of the Standing Committee of Women in the fall, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor Elena M. Kramer will...
...While on the campaign trail with John Kerry in September 2004, then-vice presidential nominee John Edwards derided the Republicans' attempt to make lackluster job-creation numbers into a shining moment for the Bush administration. "They're going to try every way they know to put lipstick on this pig," he said. "But you know when you put lipstick on a pig, at the end of the day, it's still...
...November 2004 Bush re-election campaign rally in Honolulu, Vice President Dick Cheney peppered his stump speech with the down-home expression, claiming John Kerry's tough talk about national security was nonsense. "He's trying every which way to cover up his record of weakness on national defense. But he can't do it. It won't work," Cheney said. "As we like to say in Wyoming, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at the end of the day it's still...
...NANCY GIBBS On a day when people paused and prayed, when Barack Obama joined John McCain at ground zero and made peace with Bill Clinton over lunch, when the ads were stilled and the e-mails sheathed just for a while, GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin held a peace conference of her own with the mainstream media when she sat down with ABC News anchor Charles Gibson in Fairbanks, Alaska...
...dress Palin before a national television audience, but at times he seemed to be trying. They were sitting practically toe-to-toe, and there was no forced conviviality. From the very beginning, he pushed her on her credentials, her experience, her "hubris" in thinking she was qualified to be Vice President. "I'm ready," she shot back, and when he asked again whether she had hesitated at all before accepting McCain's offer of a place on the ticket, she made it clear that her son was not the only one heading off to war. "You can't blink...