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...Williams also forgets to mention another such leader when he points out that James was narrowly reelected in 2002 with Jackson’s strong support. Williams fails to note that the victory was over Cory Booker, a 37-year-old Yale-trained attorney and Rhodes scholar. Booker ran for mayor again this May, beating James’ handpicked successor and taking over 70 percent of the vote...
What do Chairman of Microsoft Corporation William H. Gates III ’77, world-class tennis player James R. Blake ’01, and Booker Prize winning author Margaret E. Atwood MA ’62 have in common, besides a killer forehand? All three luminaries grace “The Harvard 100” list of the most influential alumni, the feature story of the first issue of 02138, an independent magazine for Harvard alumni that is attempting to become the publication of choice for its elite and accomplished community. The official press release gushes that...
...incidents of Roosevelt's presidency represent his disappointing legacy on race. The first was his invitation to black educator Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House-an act of political courage at the time. Washington, a former slave and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was, in Roosevelt's view, "the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world." On the first day of his presidency, Roosevelt sent a note to Washington inviting him to the White House to discuss suitable candidates for patronage appointments in the South...
...religious tensions are reasserting themselves. "In many ways," writes Morris, the city has become "a paradigm of our 21st century zeitgeist." A paradigm it will remain, for Hav exists only in the mind of Jan Morris. Last Letters from Hav, her first novel, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1985. The volume sowed confusion among Morris' fans, many of whom wrote to request directions and ask if a visa were necessary. "Only one single correspondent," she writes in an epilogue to Hav, "an octogenarian lady in Iowa, saw my little book as allegory." The new allegory helpfully reprints...
...have no bloody idea of what it's worth?" As Boone hails from Bacchus Marsh, Carey's birthplace, and finds himself at art's '80s epicenter in Manhattan, where the novelist has lived for nearly two decades, the question of creative worth would seem to resonate strongly with the Booker Prize winner...