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...consistency in the way the president has been characterized by journalists and commentators. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, referred to him as “abrasive” in the opening line of their Feb. 26 report, while the Weekly Standard compared him to Archie Bunker in a write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational” nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post, in their Jan. 19th report, mentioned his “reputation for blunt, sometimes brutal...
...Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, sent a memorandum to some colleagues on December 12th,” the short, straightforward write-up said. “The Economist has a copy. Some of the memo has caused a fuss within the Bank...
...you’re surprised I even took the initiative to write this piece. You might even be surprised that I have the manual dexterity necessary to type, given these grotesquely gnarled nubs I call fingers attached to the ends of my hands. Well, I’ll tell you how. I’ve got a nerd in a headlock typing furiously as I dictate. Well, I shouldn’t say “furiously.” He has plenty of time to catch up while I’m taking regular gulps of the chocolate milk...
...here just to plan dances and give out grants and write position papers that support more blue light phones on the way to the Quad. While all these services are valuable to students, we were also elected to show the rest of the Harvard community how the student body feels on important issues. It is our responsibility to show the rest of the Harvard community that we remember that Harvard stands for hundreds of years of free speech and academic inquiry—our motto “Veritas,” inspires academic exploration. A university or an organization...
...greatest advantage as an editor that he was an insider (he counted as friends everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Henry Kissinger) who began as an outsider. Henry arrived in the U.S. in 1938 with his parents, Jewish refugees from Hitler's Anschluss of their native Austria. He would write about it much later in his memoir, One Man's America. "I love America," he wrote, "because it took me in from the madness of wartime Europe and allowed me to make it my country." Love was the key word. All his life, he approached America with a kind of infatuation...