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...something that student groups would want to be counting on as a continual source of support for yearly travel,” Sundquist said. “We hope to subsidize unique or special opportunities that arise for student groups.” Harvard Ballroom Dance Team Treasurer Viki Chernow ’11 said she hopes the Student Life Fund will allow the team to send members to new competitions at the regional and national levels. Student organizations may apply for the new grants starting today, on a rolling basis. They may apply either prospectively—at least...
...Lisa Chernow, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow. (Penguin Books, 2004). Hamilton paid off his paramour’s husband so the fling could go on. And when faced with charges of adultery, he ‘fessed up without haggling over the meaning of the word ‘is.’ Perhaps the most dapper man to ever hold the position of Treasury secretary—at least until Larry Summers...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON By Ron Chernow Here a few things you didn't know about Alexander Hamilton. He was born illegitimate in the British West Indies. At 14 he was broke and virtually an orphan--his mother was dead, his father gone. But by 22 he was an aide-de-camp to George Washington, and by 34 he was this country's first Secretary of the Treasury and the principal architect of U.S.-style capitalism. For everything in between, pick up Chernow's vast and vastly entertaining biography. --By Lev Grossman
Toputitmildly,thebookworldwas surprised when Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton was not even nominated for the NBA. A fat biography of a Founding Father--wasn't that the very thing the judges were supposed to love? Instead, Kevin Boyle, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, turned out to be this year's winner. Although no one in his book wears a powdered wig, Boyle has an irresistible story to tell in Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Holt; 415 pages). And tell...