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August 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
In the August issue of the Grafton Gazette, pdf here, Bill Walker untangles a convoluted story involving $38 million in anti-competitive contracts allegedly awarded by New Hampshire’s Grafton County to private prison corporations: A lawsuit…
The reviews of Senator Obama’s acceptance speech Thursday, both journalists’ and everyone else’s, published and informal, must have been written before the speech was made. There is simply no other explanation for why everyone so…
Maybe I typed in that post title because that is the name of John Stossel’s book which I am reading right now, but it was also the thought occasioned by this CNN commentary. First thing,…
I am pleased to note that Dartmouth College is “today’s featured article” on Wikipedia’s Main Page! It is only the second Ivy League school to be so honored—Cornell University was Wikipedia’s main page featured article…
Just the fact that there is debate about whether or not Palin leans libertarian is, I think, a testament to how good a nominee she is. I look forward to posting more about her support…
I definitely understand the appeal of the iPhone. I would get one myself if they were compatible with Verizon or I was smart enough to hack into the thing and change the configuration. But I…
The American Book Review—of which I know nothing at all—has launched itself furiously into general awareness by publishing a ranking of the best first lines in English literature. Even if the ranking is meaningless, it…
Palin evidently has no problem crossing party lines or working in a bipartisan manner. Her husband and at least one of her sons are registered undeclared/ independents, not Republicans….
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…