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September 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Today, I was offended. Trust me, it’s an unusual occurrence as I tend to be less sensitive to politically incorrect statements. Yet I found it extremely distasteful that Italian comedienne Sabina Guzzanti said the following…
In a fine column last week, Deroy Murdock praises the McCain-Palin ticket while taking aim at a Republican Party that has shown absolutely zero fiscal responsibility. This is an important distinction to make, and Murdock…
A new law in one Massachusetts town mandates that under-17-year-old riders wear a helmet or risk having their bicycle taken from them by police. I guess it’s better that something like this is coming from…
Nearly a full page in The New York Times is devoted to the New Hampshire Senate race between incumbent senator John Sununu and former NH governor Jeanne Shaheen. The analysis is pretty good….
My days continue to be buffeted by the gales of vituperation emanating from leftists over the existence of Sarah Palin. (Had they heretofore been pretending that no one of her description—clever, attractive, womanly, motherly, wifely,…
An interesting and on-target column from David Brooks….
As Diane points up below, the entire world, minus those elements which have a direct stake in the election, has come out for Barack Obama. Here’s Janet Albrechtsen in today’s Wall Street Journal Asia, with…
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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…