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...Leveraging the Lobbyist Scandal For a congressional candidate, a presidential visit during campaign season is a sought-after opportunity...
...newsman on WHRB, the student-run radio station. I interviewed Eisenhower’s press secretary and the chief assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy ’40, and eventually Kennedy himself, first in West Virginia during the 1960 primary and then during his post-election visit for a Board of Overseers meeting. But although I came from a progressive family, I was not political, and it never occurred to me in 1956 or 1960 that I should—or that I, as an individual student, could—do anything directly about the election. Many...
After years of controversy, the Harvard College Women’s Center has finally opened, nestled somewhere in the bowels of Canaday Hall. It’s a quaint facility, really: All students, regardless of gender, can visit the Women’s Center for free coffee and tea (there are multiple varieties of each). An industrious student can even make photocopies and print her papers free of charge. The center is so universally hospitable, in fact, that some might mistake the space for a student center lite. And that, really, is the problem. Even now that the center...
During his recent visit to Washington, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad stayed out of the roiling political debate surrounding the U.S. presence in Iraq, and President George Bush assured him that that was exactly what he should do. Bush told Khalilzad not to be concerned about the realities of a contentious midterm election season encroaching on his work keeping the nacent Iraqi political process on track. The President assured him, "I'll take care of politics, you don't need to worry about that...
...Meanwhile, national party dollars continue to flood in - and so do national party stars, including Laura Bush and Barack Obama, who is scheduled to visit this coming weekend. But, says the University of Iowa's Peverill Squire, "I don't think either candidate wants to appear as being too attuned with Washington this time around...