{"id":1979,"date":"2004-01-21T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T12:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/21\/lets-hope-this-catches-on\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T12:40:27","slug":"lets-hope-this-catches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/21\/lets-hope-this-catches-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets Hope This Catches On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2368'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong><font size=\"+1\">Norma Yvonne Declares Self &quot;Double Boss&quot; of Dowbrigade and Dowbrigade<br \/>\n        News<\/font><\/strong>\n      <\/p>\n<p>Regular readers may notice a significant upgrade in the content and<br \/>\n        aestetics of the Dowbrigade News, due to the fact that the wife of the<br \/>\n        managing editor, rejecting a figurehead role as a &quot;blogging widow,&quot; has<br \/>\n        finally decided to take matters into her own hands and exert<br \/>\n        her considerable influence as the Boss of not only the Dowbrigade himself,<br \/>\n      but of the Dowbrigade News as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a related vein, Dr. Judith Steinberg has declared herself the &quot;Double<br \/>\n        Boss&quot; of candidate Howard Dean and the Dean campaign, and has immediately<br \/>\n        ordered her husband to &quot;chill out, calm down and get rid of the garbage&quot;<br \/>\n        which appearantly has been piling up since Dr. Dean left the family home<br \/>\n        in Vermont to hit the campaign train two months ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/libe.jpeg\" width=\"185\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\">MONROVIA, Liberia Jan. 20 &#8212; The wife of the leader of Liberia&#8217;s<br \/>\n          most powerful rebel movement announced Tuesday she was taking charge,<br \/>\n          backed by dozens of guerrilla commanders in ousting a husband whose<br \/>\n          ambitions she said were endangering the nation&#8217;s hard-won peace.<\/p>\n<p>          In a family feud with West Africa&#8217;s stability in the balance, warlord<br \/>\n          Sekou Conneh frantically took to state radio to insist it was only<br \/>\n          a marital squabble and he was still in command.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>        But Asha Keita-Conneh declared she was the &quot;double boss,&quot; of<br \/>\n  her husband and the movement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I put him there. If you open a big business and you put your husband in<br \/>\n  charge, if you see that things are not going the right way, you set him aside,<br \/>\n  and<br \/>\n    straighten things up,&quot; Keita-Conneh told The Associated Press, as her<br \/>\n    baby daughter who she is still nursing lay beside her on a bed in the family<br \/>\n    home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/World\/ap20040120_1379.html\">ABC News<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norma Yvonne Declares Self &quot;Double Boss&quot; of Dowbrigade and Dowbrigade News Regular readers may notice a significant upgrade in the content and aestetics of the Dowbrigade News, due to the fact that the wife of the managing editor, rejecting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/21\/lets-hope-this-catches-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}