For collectors of ironies, here’s a more delicious one. Harvard University has a rule that if a professor leaves to work for government for more than two years, he would lose his tenure in the university. So Henry Kissinger could not return to Harvard after he had conducted all those wars for Richard Nixon. Stanford has no such rule, so Condoleezza Rice decided to return to her old professorship after she was done with all her wars by the side of George Bush. The liberals of Stanford, faculty and students, objected—only to be ignored by the pugnacious lady, who asserted her right of return. But she remains somewhat isolated. The reason is simple. The Golden Spike, one of the campus newspapers run by students, recently had a lead story with the headline: ‘Condoleezza Rice Bullshits Way Through Lecture’.