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...site, “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” alphabetically indexes Harry Potter names and terms, from Hannah Abbott to “zoological column”—the Daily Prophet’s weekly zoological feature...
...While three prominent portraits of Harvard women have been added to the room, the space is dominated by a superb portrait of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, painted by John Singer Sargent. Lowell, who served as president of Harvard for 24 years, is now infamous for his bigoted attitudes toward African-Americans, Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities. “In the stories of racial minorities of all kinds, ethnic minorities, Harvard has a history of overt discrimination,” Ulrich says...
...vocalists for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Connie Haines made her mark with rhythmic, up-tempo songs like "Oh, Look at Me Now" and "Snooty Little Cutie." Haines got her start at the age of 4, performing in theaters in her native Savannah, Ga. She later made radio appearances with Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and television appearances with Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan. She also performed for five U.S. Presidents, a testament to her enduring career. Haines...
...Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) had basked in victory after the Texas Supreme Court ordered the return of the children taken from its ranch in Eldorado in April. But the state's attorney general Greg Abbott pledged to prosecute FLDS members to the full extent of the law. And this week, after going through evidence taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Abbott indicted Warren Jeffs - the "Prophet" of the polygamists - along with four of his followers on charges of first-degree felony sexual assault of a minor. (The four men were not named, and law-enforcement officials...
...majority of the Houses were built in the 1930s under then-University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who saw residential college life as a way of “promoting a greater interest in things intellectual, supplementing and enhancing formal instruction...