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...also pick out tunes on the guitar--Mansfield recalls a particular fondness for Cornell fight songs. He lived in Adams House with Bill Kristol '73, son of famed neo-conservative Irving K. and himself founder of the conservative Weekly Standard. Even in his entertainment, Keyes aimed to be a beacon of principle. He liked movies, "particularly movies that have some political or moral dimension," Lewis says. Richard III and John Wayne classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were favorites...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: This Man Is Running For President: What Alan Keyes Learned at Harvard | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...with his vision. For the rest of us, his image offers something much simpler--a shining set of ideals to emulate. Individual freedom. Political liberty. Social justice. Nonviolent protest. Passive resistance. Religious tolerance. His work and his spirit awakened the 20th century to ideas that serve as a moral beacon for all epochs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...response to complaints about student performance and teacher conduct, a divided Beacon Hill passed an educational reform act, which was signed into law by William F. Weld...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Many Future Teachers Fail State Competency Tests | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard Square, unlike Newbury Street, Beacon Hill and other old quarters of Boston and Cambridge, is not a designated historic district...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Square May Be Designated as Historic District | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

LONDON The Millennium Dome The Queen will light a beacon, then boat down the Thames to officially open Britain's millennium landmark --Invitation only --10,000 guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Corks Everywhere | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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