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November 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
With the curtain about to descend, Cole Porter, master of popular theater, never once had the orchestra descend to a lower minor and dribble out the big finish in the bassoons. Roughly likewise, Senator Barack…
If there is a singular story from tonight’s results thus far, I think it is the unfortunate circumstances that have befallen a number of truly good men. Among the apparent fallen: My hometown congressman Chris…
Caol Ila 18 has a way of getting E.V. 270 out of mind….
Courtesy of Career Services, a fantastic job opportunity for undergraduates with an interest in property rights. The Castle Coalition, a branch of the Institute for Justice which has come to prominence fighting for individual rights…
In the case that some readers are, like I must confess I am, suffering from election day fatigue, here is a little tidbit from dear old Dartmouth. Yesterday evening Professor of History Emeritus Jere Daniell…
“The only tragedy is not to have been a saint.” — Leon Bloy From Ramesh, who along with most of my correspondents is not optimistic about today….
A fun election night menu published by the New York Times. New Hampshire, the article deems an aperitif, and indeed we should hear returns from the Granite State early on, though we we likely not…
I was just down at Hanover High School casting my ballot and spending a few minutes with the poll standers before having to go to work. The first thing that struck me was how all…
Guy: Did you hear Obama’s grandmother died? Girl: Great, that will definitely help out his campaign….
Four years ere, George Soros’s lawyers had commandeered Collis and were working to ensure that Dartmouth students wouldn’t be pestered by Constitutional martinets as they attempted to vote two, three, four times. What’s going on…
FROM JOE: The following comes from a friend, a reader, a finance fellow who will post occasionally on The Implosion of the Economy and impecuniosity in general. 10 months ago, the economic crisis was starkly…
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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…