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Only two of the founders were left now, thought Jerry Ford: himself and John Allen, the old Congressman from Oakland, California, off someplace in Idaho now. Richard Nixon had been among the three surviving founders of the Chowder and Marching Society, formed in 1949 by 15 fractious young Republicans of the House to oppose monthly bonuses for war veterans, which they considered too costly. Chowder and Marching welded exuberant friendships and accidentally founded a power matrix that helped produce three Presidents and shape an American half-century...
...Jeremy Knowles was not organized by the MSA. Dean Knowles himself requested to meet with students through the Harvard Foundation. This meeting, which took place on March 24, 1994, was not one for negotiation but rather for direct communication. In attendance were student activists, Dean Buell, Dr. S. Allen Counter, members of the Academic Affairs Committee, the co-chairs of the Minority Students Alliance and other student leaders...
...WITH HONORS" is a very bad movie. But it warms the cockles of the heart, and to paraphrase Woody Allen, there's nothing like hot cockles...
...They're smart. Well, anyway, their writers are. "There are jokes you won't get," says Groening, "unless you've actually attended a few classes in college." Lit. 101 will teach you that Lisa's poetry is inspired by Allen Ginsberg's and that the prison number (24601) worn variously by Marge, Principal Skinner and Sideshow Bob is Jean Valjean's in Les Miserables. It also helps if you know old movies. Simpsons plots have plundered King Kong, Citizen Kane, Thelma & Louise, Cape Fear and the entire Hitchcock oeuvre. "If you steal from a black-and-white film," Brooks told...
...other difference is that those Binghamton graduates who do end up in specialty practice have been exposed to the basic importance of primary care. As Allen points out, 85 percent of all physicians practice in a community, rather than an academic setting, which means that the training Binghamton campus graduates receive in their last two years of medical school makes them more prepared for real-life practice...