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...polls, Bush has a full week and a Thanksgiving holiday to lower the political temperature before politicians return to the capital. After last week's tumult and partisan drama on Capitol Hill, Bush might be thankful that the lawmakers' November recess has arrived like the clang of the bell mercifully terminating a middle round in a heavyweight slugfest. Instead of irate, uppercutting critics, awaiting him in Washington are a stack of budget bills primped for his pen and a National Turkey urgently seeking presidential pardon. He leaves Tuesday to celebrate the holiday at his home in Crawford...
...Thanksgiving holiday has taken on new meaning for my family and me. Gone is our tradition of gathering at my parents' home, where we cooked everything in the refrigerator, turning out mouthwatering dishes like Creole seafood gumbo, stuffed bell peppers and oyster dressing. Although my grandmothers and mother passed away years ago, their spirits continued to preside over the preparation of holiday feasts. Their pots, pans and humble cooking utensils were precious symbols of their legacies as our family matriarchs. Their love was profoundly expressed through the rich, spicy delicacies delivered to all who came to visit during the holidays...
...mastery of straight photography—a style emphasizing sharp detail and tonal range over fuzzy abstraction that Adams gleaned from contemporaries like Paul Strand and Edward Weston. But while the latter two used the technique to capture the intricacies of daily life with pictures of people, bicycles and bell peppers, Adams took the requisite large-format view camera (he shot each frame on huge, eight-by-ten-inch sheets of film) into the wilderness.The resulting images have defined Ansel Adams and the American West. There’s the captivating “Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada...
While still attending Manatee, Cooper met Sam Bell, the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Bell encouraged the young Democrat to pursue his interest in politics. Cooper took the advice to heart, and he eventually nabbed a job as the assistant fundraising director with the Democratic National Committee...
...Through the melding of all of our individual broken dreams, we become each others’ very fulfillments. That’s just the point: amidst the rubble of our lives, we find friends to merge into and build ourselves back up. To quote legendary Crimson columnist Martin S. Bell ’03 quoting legendary Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh, “Some time when your schooling’s over, when your education’s over, you’ll look back and you’ll say, ‘Hey, I did this with...