Hartford Advocate: Those Dry Bones:

"Author Alexandra Robbins (Yale class of 1998) made the bestseller list with Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League and the Hidden Paths of Power (Little, Brown, 2002). She interviewed more than 100 Bonesmen. .. She believes voters deserve to know about Kerry's and Bush's Bones exploits.

'I don't think any elected official who represents us should be allowed to hold allegiance to a secret society,' she argues. 'Secrecy overshadows democracy. When you have candidates who are unwilling to talk about this part of their background, which is obviously still important to them, that's a reason to pause.'

According to Robbins, Skull-and-Bones lore states that when the Greek orator Demosthenes died in 322 B.C., the goddess of eloquence, Eulogia, ascended to the heavens. She stayed there until Skull and Bones' founding in 1832. Then she came to live in the tomb. To this day, Bonesmen, who call themselves "Knights of Eulogia," sing anthems to her and bring her allegedly stolen offerings (like Geronimo's bones). How will that one play in the Bible Belt? "