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October 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Stay tuned for up to the minute live coverage of the Vice Presidential debate…I hope you’ll consider joining me at 9pm EST. I certainly hope that the debate itself is not as ridiculous as some…
Early this afternoon Dartblog posted a link to the full transcript of Charlie Rose’s interivew of last night with Warren Buffett. The famous investor is not, let us say, unused to ginning press for himself….
A great article in the Washington Post about the reinvigorating effects of the bailout on the libertarian movement. The article makes the dual points that the fact that a problem caused by big government is…
Some funny courtroom exchanges, passed on to me and from a book called Disorder in the American Courts….
The myth that liberals are morally blind is apparently more true than the myth that conservatives are morally blind, according to research by Jonathan Haidt, associate professor of moral psychology at the University of Virginia….
I consider that for a young man I am rather well-developed financially. I have lines of credit in various forms from several institutions, and I expect to weather the present economic infelicity pretty well. (It…
Wachovia Bank has a $10 billion business in short term holdings for universities as a trustee of a group called Commonfund, which makes investments for non-profits—and of which Lyn Hutton, former Dartmouth treasurer, is the…
The New York City subway system is set to launch its first subway car wrapped totally in advertisements (for the History Channel). Sounds good to me. If this system of public transport is mired in…
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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…