An English professor at Boston College in an open letter in the Boston Globe to the President of BC has quit because the commencement speaker this year will be Condoleezza Rice. His reasoning: "Simply put, Rice is a liar."
He cites that the House Committee on Governement Reform found "she made 29 false or misleading public statements concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda." He acknowledges her intellect and achievements but says she repudiates "the reverence for truth and knowledge that Boston College purports to champion." Apparently there was "widespread objection" to inviting her, but the president ignored it, and Almond says he's now too proud to admit the mistake, just like the administration.
This seems a bit drastic to me, after all she is the sitting Secretary of State, but you have to respect a guy for doing what he believes in. Oh wait, that would mean I have to respect Bush and Cheney and I don't. Ok, you have to respect a guy standing up for truth, yeah I guess that's it.
Almond has written a few books of (it seems mostly romance) stories. He also wrote Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America about his obsession with candy. He has 3-7 lbs of candy in the house at all times, eats a piece every day, and thinks about it "at least once an hour". Maybe this is all a sugar rush.
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