yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/23/2008
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My thoughts on this absurd Seattle Times hit on Darcy Burner:
Harvard, as you know, is old and fancy. Consequently, it has a lot of old and fancy terminology and procedures that differ somewhat from the American norm. They don’t, for example, have “teaching assistants” (TAs) ...
openleft.com - 10/23/2008
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openleft.com —
Emily Heffter at the Seattle Times just published
a story Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree...
in economics aren't true . The story is literally made up out of whole cloth. Burner has a degree in computer science and economics from ...
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How the Seattle Times Is Trying to Take Out Darcy Burner
seattletimes.nwsource.com - 10/22/2008
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seattletimes.nwsource.com —
Congressional candidate Darcy Burner has touted her Harvard
University degree in economics during her campaign for the...
8th Congressional District seat against Rep. Dave Reichert. But while Burner took some economics classes at Harvard, her degree is ...
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Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree in economics ...
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... , who attributes the piece to distaste for the Democratic candidate's progressive tenor. Burner’s not addressing the article reflects a legitimate argument that she didn’t need to go into complicated detail, Matthew Yglesias asserts. Her success has driven the media–such as the Times–and Republicans to panic, with the NRCC's spending thousands of dollars in the race as an example, ...
And the Backstory of the Seattle Times Massive Punkage
Open Left - Front Page —
... the easy, non-mathematical Ec courses). So it's not exactly a minor (which we didn't have then, though we do now), and it's also not anything that the registrar would be able to certify (because it's an internal requirement of the computer science faculty). But it's something everyone getting a degree in CS had to do (though other students would have other specialties). The way Darcy is describing herself is accurate.
And Matt Yglesias, who went to Harvard as well, chimed in.
Harvard, as you know, is old and fancy. Consequently, it has a lot of ...
I Don’t Know Why This Amuses Me
Oliver Willis —
Matt Yglesias: “Harvard, as you know, is old and fancy.”
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