February 05, 2009
Salacious college gossip site JuicyCampus is going out of business. You'd think collegians would learn to be polite! But here's "cool" blog IvyGate, calling this nice article the "nerdiest story of the day." That's mean: "Throwing around standard ILMUNC lingo - "DISEC" for the Disarmament and Intern...
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Hamilton Nolan
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January 10, 2009
IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part I Lately, the cavalcade of admissions soothsayers seems to stretch from high school guidance counselor’s offices all the way to the bank—not to mention a stopover at the open palms of admissions coaches. Neither here nor there, the secret to getting ...
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Adam Clark Estes
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January 07, 2009
Freeze Magazine, a year-old online magazine for college girls, recently opened the polls for their second annual Mr. Harvard Freshman contest. The magazine describes itself as the source for students “too old for Seventeen, but not yet ready to move onto Marie Claire,” and the contest st...
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Adam Clark Estes
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December 31, 2008
One of my friends raised her kids in the Lower Merion School District, in a Philadelphia Main Line community. (Kobe Bryant went there.) She used to tell me horror stories about the "helicopter parents," like the ones who insisted on getting their kids into the other kindergarten class - because more...
Crooks and Liars
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Susie Madrak
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December 22, 2008
There was much surprise last week when President-elect Barack Obama selected outgoing Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) for secretary of transportation. After all, LaHood isn't an expert on transportation matters....
washingtonpost.com - Al Kamen's In The Loop Column
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Al Kamen
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There was much surprise last week when President-elect Barack Obama selected outgoing Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) for secretary of transportation. After all, LaHood isn't an expert on transportation matters....
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Al Kamen
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December 20, 2008
If Harry Truman's inauguration had been proclaimed by one of the theaters lining Washington's black U Street in 1949, the marquee might have read: "The Truman Inauguration, starring Lionel Hampton."...
washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive
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Colbert I. King
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December 15, 2008
I find it ironic and disengenuous that the Hillarycrat detractors of Caroline Kennedy, a New York resident for over four decades, would have the temerity to suggest that the Harvard University educated author, lawyer, and philanthropist lacks the necessary qualifications to represent New York Stat...
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December 07, 2008
Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Alec MacGillis
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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