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September 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
It is no secret that Sarah Palin has loosened leftist brains. Now comes news that some Obamans may have hacked into her private e-mail account, splaying photographs and e-mails all over the Internet. Alex Pareene at Gawker and Charles Johnson…
I grew up listening to Mike and the Mad Dog talk New York sports on WFAN, but the times they are a-changin’. Chris Russo has taken a major contract with Sirius XM radio and Mike Francesa has been going it…
One of CNN’s liberal opinion men, who masquerades as a news reporter, posing slanted questions to viewers in the hopes of getting the right responses, says about the presidential election: “the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.” Of…
New hope for students (and everybody else) who might not be able to afford tons of CDs or Apple iTunes downloads, but who also don’t want to get threatening letters from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Enter Myspace…
A good friend at A.I.G. writes—or, rather, quotes:O! that a man might know The end of this day’s business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known….
Sue Knapp tells us that Dartmouth has a new data center in Lebanon, N.H. All I have to say is: my data center is better than that, baby. But perhaps with 55 terabytes more storage, the College can finally put…
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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…