August 30, 2008 - 
Trinity Alumna Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway ’89 (left photo), founder of thepollingcompany,was ahead of most political strategists on Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor who became John McCain’s vice presidential choice yesterday. Quoted in a June article in politico.com…, Kellyanne Continue reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
August 28, 2008 - 
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Sophomore Sydney Cross is in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, and she has sent the following dispatches from the scene:
A snapshot of Day One:
“Day one of the Democratic National Convention has been a very dynamic and interesting Continue reading
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August 26, 2008 - 
88 years ago today, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby ratified the 19th Amendment… to the Constitution.
88 years ago — before this very day, and in the lifetime of women many of us have known — women in the United Continue reading
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August 25, 2008 - 
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The Olympics may be over, but for Americans, a contest of Olympic proportions is just beginning. Today marks the real beginning of the presidential election season as Democratic Convention Co-Chair and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ’62 gavels the Continue reading
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August 22, 2008 - ||29695108@N03||orientation||
The Class of 2012 has been on campus for just one week and already they are exhibiting a style and grace — a sense of class — that sets a high standard for the upcoming academic year. I have… Continue reading
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August 18, 2008 - 
…This past weekend, as Michael Phelps swam into Olympic history and some remarkable older women (aged 33, 38 and 41 — winning silver in gymnastics vault, gold in the marathon, and silver in 50 meter swimming) proved that staying in Continue reading
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August 14, 2008 - 
…We all do things in our young lives that people who know us later on can’t imagine — bet you didn’t know that I was once in charge of the horses for an entire summer at the day camp where Continue reading
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August 12, 2008 - 
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Quick review of the scorecard: (oops, no pun intended!)…
Bill Clinton
Newt Gingrich
Robert Livingston
Rudy Giuliani
Eliot Spitzer
Nelson Rockefeller
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hmmm. This is gettting to be a pretty distinguished list! Now we can Continue reading
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August 11, 2008 - 
On the far side of the world, the bear and the dragon are flexing their muscles in different ways — Russian bombs crashing… on apartments in Georgia; Chinese architectural wonders amid tightly controlled environments in Beijing — while Olympic television Continue reading
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August 10, 2008 - 
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Can a woman fly an airplane? Yes, she can!
Can a woman build a building? Yes, she can!
Can a woman lead a nation?
Can she run a TV station?
Can she head a corporation?
Yes! She can! Yes! She Continue reading
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