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...Crimson revealed overwhelming student support for Herbert Hoover, FDR’s Republican opponent. The Crimson, his former paper, would later brand FDR “a traitor to his fine education.” Classmate Walter Russell Bowie, class of 1904, noted “the rancorous and almost hysterical political animus which rose against him and what he stood for among the privileged groups to which many of the Harvard graduates happened to belong.” Despite his cool reception on campus, FDR invited Harvard men to the White House throughout his presidency, once shaking the hands...
...means that this latest controversy isn't likely to go away any time soon, and that Illinois' elected representatives will once again be distracted from the pressing business of running the state. "You think it's all over, then we're dumbfounded," said Republican House Leader Tom Cross. "I almost thought we had hit rock bottom with the last two governors, almost like an alcoholic or some other addict hits bottom before gathering himself together to get better, get some discipline and climb out of it. Maybe, hopefully, we've hit it now." After the last couple of days...
...going anywhere, just as Castro didn't despite almost five decades of U.S. efforts to isolate him. That fact alone should prompt President Obama to break with the failed policies of his predecessors and meet with Chávez ahead of April's Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. (First item: reinstating each other's ambassadors, who were expelled from Washington and Caracas last year after Chávez accused the U.S. envoy of conspiring against him.) Talking to Chávez is not a popular idea in Washington, given the Venezuelan leader's strident anti-U.S. histrionics...
...Enrico Mentana, the most respected newsman on Berlusconi's Mediaset network, abruptly announced his resignation after company executives refused his request to cut into a reality television show following the death of Eluana Englaro, a comatose Udinese woman whose right-to-die case had riveted the nation. Almost immediately, Mediaset accused Mentana of striking a deal to go to Murdoch's All-News Italian station...
...Bergé moved out of the Rue de Babylone apartment 20 years ago, though the pair continued to collect together. The entire collection was bequeathed to Bergé when Saint Laurent died, and he knew almost right away that he would sell it all, with the proceeds - estimated to top $250 million - destined for AIDS research and a Saint Laurent museum. "Since Yves died, the collection has lost its sense," says Berg...