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...Crimson’s other victories on the day came from junior Benton Bodamer in the 110-meter high hurdles at 15.87 seconds, and Aaron Snead in the pole vault at 4.13 meters...
...Harvard's other event winners on the day were junior Aaron Snead in the pole vault (4.26 meters), senior Arthur Fergusson in the triple jump (13.94 meters), junior Benton Bodamer in the 400-meter hurdles (57.08 seconds), and sophomore Chris Antunes...
...should, in fact, be required reading for everyone in politics and the commentariat. It might reintroduce them to the bracing idea of moral independence, the idea of telling popularity, money and the media to go to hell. Kennedy studied the behavior of politicians (Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Robert A. Taft, and others) who took profoundly principled but unpopular stands, even at the risk of their own careers...
...William Allen White describes the Senate of the same era as "plutocratic feudalism." The description holds. Who could resist Missouri's Thomas Hart Benton, who, on the day a colleague in the Senate accused him of being quarrelsome, replied: "Mr. President, sir... I never quarrel, sir. But sometimes I fight, sir, and whenever I fight, sir, a funeral follows...
...them is in this auditorium. A triple amputee from Benton Harbor, Mich., she used her one remaining hand to drag herself along the interstate all the way to Boston so she could be with us here tonight. And this is her story. She's an heiress of an agribusiness fortune who set up a tax shelter in the Cayman Islands, only to find that she'd missed a filing deadline under the needlessly complex S.A.Y.W.H.A.T. law--and I thank my opponent for supporting this valuable legislation. But I think that's wrong, just plain wrong, and as President I would...