HEY!: From TNR:
" I'll tell you why. Because members of the elite media hail from East Coast Ivy League bastions like Harvard and thus remain endlessly fascinated by every burp and hiccup to emanate from such hallowed halls. If the president of Duke or UCLA or Rice or even Stanford had made such a gaffe, The New York Times would have yawned twice and gone back to reporting on Christo's plans to wrap Zabar's in orange cellophane."
Two thoughts:
1. I'm very offended by our being put into the same category as such pedestrian schools as Rice or UCLA (or even Stanford). We're way better than all of those (except for Stanford in political science, but it's only a good school if you hate political theory, and Rice is good, I guess, if you want to go to school in Texas).
2. That's actually not true: Dick Brodhead came to us from Yale, so the NYT could write an article about how he's keeping up the tradition of putting his foot in his mouth (as he apparently did, so the Chronicle informed me yesterday, though on one of those 'let a 60s radical go free'-type stories that the Times likes to portray). So bully for us.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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