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November 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
A CNN article entitled ‘Bling for sale — formerly owned by drug dealers’ caught my attention, and when I read the first line “If you’re in the market for a diamond-studded gold gorilla pendant…” I…
AbovetheLaw reports on a law student at Arizona State University who refused to give his precious outlines and case notes to a robber. The full news story is here, but the gist is that, confronted…
As the economy retreats into receivership, the world into brutalism, and the polity into saviorship, Christopher Hitchens suggests seditiously that the savior may not be enough to quell the aggressors….
Jon Tierney at the New York Times reports on a psychological study of conservatives’ and liberals’ sense of humor. The general question: who laughs more? A blog entry about the study, from the lead researcher…
Deroy Murdock on the GOP’s Night of the Long Knives and the need to get back to fundamental principles. In short, The GOP has been laid low, thanks to politicians who swapped their principles for…
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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…