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Obama tapped his professors' support throughout his bid for the presidency for money, connections, and advice. A top-dollar fundraiser held at the Cambridge home of professor David B. Wilkins ’77 in early 2007 not only reunited him with old classmates and Law School professors, but also allowed him to rub elbows with influential Massachusetts Democrats...
...When I got to the river, the women’s A division had just finished a race, so all the boats were on the dock and the B-division sailors were hopping in. Once the boats left the dock, the first thing I saw was one boat tip nearly all the way over. The two women in it scrambled to the other side of the boat and pulled it back upright. Close call, I thought. Actually, that’s the way sailing goes. Now I understand why the team lifts twice a week...
...pair placed outside of the top ten just once in 11 races, and recorded five top-three finishes. Their combined 54 points placed them 16 points ahead of the second-place Bulldogs.Meanwhile, freshman Lambert continued her successful rookie campaign by skippering Harvard to a fourth-place finish in the B division. Sophomore Quincy Bock and freshman Lilla Cosgrove split time as crew. “[Lambert] came into college already a really talented sailor…and she has done a really great job adapting to the style of sailing that’s done in college...
...strict Methodist family in Peru, Kans., in 1922. She fell in love with Stanley Dunham, a furniture salesman, and, against her parents' wishes, married him in 1940. When he enlisted in the Army during World War II, she got a job on a Wichita assembly line making Boeing B-29s. Their daughter was born in 1942, and because Stanley had wanted a boy, they named the girl Stanley Ann. Over the next two decades, Dunham moved at least five times - always in pursuit of her husband's next adventure as a salesman. In 1960 the Dunhams moved to Honolulu...
...Staff writer Christian B. Flow contributed to the writing of this story.—Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...