Thursday, October 26, 2006

Why Did You Publish This Dept., Pt. 2

A little while back I posted about a bizarre story in the Crimson that suggested, without any merit whatsoever, that Bill Clinton would be the next president of Harvard.

Check out this story in the New York Times.* Headline: "Demure Madonna and Anxious President." What! What? Did Madonna make an appearance with Dubya? No way, right?

Right. If you read the story, you will quickly see that there is no connection whatsoever between Madonna and Bush. All they did was make awkward appearances on television on the same day. I don't care if some overzealous undergrad writes a story about how he shook Clinton's hand (er, Bill Clinton will be the next president of Harvard), but I really... don't know... what is going on here.

*I know some people write New York Times--with only the "Times" italicized--but I think that's obnoxious. Just like the New Yorker writes "coordinate" with an "ö," as in "coördinate." Come on guys, who are you kidding.

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