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Oprah V Harvey THE SCRAPBOOK salutes Harvey Mansfield, who is not only our favorite Harvard professor but also the first Weekly Standard contributor that we're aware of to make it onto the cover of...
...I think the outcry would have been the same.'" So why exactly do businessmen who happen to be Arabs deserve to be compared with skinheads, Mr...
...Schumer heatedly disputes that view...
...According to the Times, the guilty parties were, in order, the photograph, the jacket, the shirt, the tie, and the film...
...Journal interviewer Naomi Schaefer Riley elicited from Mansfield a sharper judgment on Summers: "He has apologized so much that he looks unmanly...
...And the editors were so impressed with Mansfield's answers that they chose to tease the interview on the cover...
...Two, be careful what you wish for...
...Oprah V Harvey THE SCRAPBOOK salutes Harvey Mansfield, who is not only our favorite Harvard professor but also the first Weekly Standard contributor that we're aware of to make it onto the cover of Oprah magazine, thanks (ironically...
...The End of Dutch Multiculturalism Paul Belien, editor of the Brussels Journal (www.brusselsjournal...
...As was perhaps to be expected, the questions posed in the March 12 New York Times Magazine were embarrassingly silly, but deftly parried...
...This so-called 'integration test' includes a film which exposes the would-be immigrants to scenes of kissing homosexual men and topless women...
...Witness (at right) last week's grotesque cover portrait of Democrat Mark Warner, which occasioned, three days later, this amusing bit of backpedaling: "The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency...
...the tie was dark blue with stripes, not maroon...
...Meanwhile, we don't want to take sales away from Oprah, so we won't print excerpts (plus, we don't want to anticipate our own review...
...He's a manly fellow," replied Mansfield, "but he made his administration too much of a oneman show...
...Schumer...
...As Slate's Mickey Kaus observed, "Isn't that like a newspaper saying that the facts changed in transcription and 'the writing altered them further.' Well, OK then...
...Notice, especially, the artful use of the passive voice...
...The surprise was the April issue of Oprah magazine...
...But instead, he went on his own, and by his many apologies, left his defenders discouraged and dismayed...
...Endorsements don't get much better than that...
...Since March 1," he reports, "people who want to settle in the Netherlands are required to pass a preliminary exam at the Dutch embassy in their native country...
...The Salient, as befits a student paper, homed in on the local angle: Was ousted Harvard president Larry Summers deficient in manliness...
...Mansfield has recently been on the interview circuit, introducing a new generation to some old wisdom...
...So your generally left-leaning colleagues are willing to talk to you...
...We Are All Neoconservatives Now "Mr...
...New York Times "Editors' Note," March 15, 2006...
...The jacket was charcoal, not maroon...
...There are several possible morals to be drawn, but we'll mention a couple of special interest to foes of mul-ticulturalism...
...Let's say skinheads had bought a company to take over our port,' he said...
...According to a piece in the New York Observer last week, Schumer's beating the drums to kill the Dubai ports deal "came under fire from many quarters, with some critics suggesting that opposition to the deal was driven by xenophobia or anti-Arab racism...
...Senatorial Metaphors Don't look now, but we think Charles Schumer just compared Arab businessmen to skinheads...
...Fortunately this applies to the United States, too...
...Raising the Passive Voice to an Art Form So apparently it's not just conservatives that the New York Times goes after with unfair photographs...
...David E. Sanger, the New York Times, March 14, 2006...
...Participants are obliged to buy the film (even if they find it offensive), as well as a CD ROM and a picture book...
...Right now, Harvard is wealthy, famous, and prestigious...
...to his new book Manliness...
...One, if you do away with multiculturalism and insist on assimilation to the majority culture, defining what that culture is will be contentious...
...Elizabeth Gilbert's interview was deft, good-humored, and intelligent...
...However, a censored version of the film, without the gay kissing scene and the female nudity, has been made for countries such as Iran, where the distribution of homosexual and nude material is illegal...
...They also go after liberals—if they happen to be on the wrong side of Hillary Clinton...
...And, of course, buy the book...
...We trust Yale University Press will be trumpeting that statement in ads in major newspapers and magazines...
...the shirt was light blue, not pink...
...One actually could learn something about Mansfield's (complicated) take on manliness from them...
...THE SCRAPBOOK never thought it would be saying this—but real men should buy this month's Oprah...
...The message is that 'If you can't tolerate gay lifestyle and public nudity, you can't come.' "Citizens from EU member states and from Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan are exempt from the test...
...In Praise of Manly Men—Who are they, where are they, and why do we still want them...
...But it isn't great...
...He should have gathered a party of defenders and supporters in the administration itself and in the faculty...
...I should punch them out, but I don't...
...Bush was clearly seeking to manage expectations and answer a new group of critics—neocon-servatives who have said that because Iraq is now liberated, it is up to the Iraqis themselves to defend the country and piece together a government acceptable to all factions...
...But he had a manly project, to renew Harvard, to make it great...
...The film that was used can cause colors to shift, and the processing altered them further...
...Otherwise Americans—most of whom do not approve of the public display of depravity and nudity—would not be allowed to settle in the Netherlands...
...com), draws our attention to the new entrance exam for immigrants to the Netherlands...
...the change escaped notice because of a misunderstanding by the editors...
...The interviewers in the March 2 Harvard Salient and the March 4 Wall Street Journal were both friendly and penetrating...
...Among them have been William F. Buckley Jr...
...People listen to me, but they don't pay attention to what I say...
...We've read four of these profiles, and they're all worth perusing, since Mansfield has an enviable ability to respond to all manner of questions with interesting, witty, and thought-provoking answers...
...Inside they announce that Mansfield has "written the book—the thoughtful, vexing, and ultimately irresistible book"—on the subject of manliness...
Vol. 11 • March 2006 • No. 26
