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...Lebanon and northern Israel might have been avoided had the Bush Administration not given the cold shoulder to Iran and Syria. And the U.S. might have been able to wield some influence had it not been embroiled in a civil war in Iraq. We don't have to wait to learn what the legacy of the Bush Administration will be. We can see it now in all the blood being spilled and the destruction happening in Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. ERIK STOTTRUP Waupaca...
DIED. Robert McCullough, 64, who changed the civil rights movement in 1961 when he refused to pay a $100 fine for requesting service, along with eight other black students, at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and instead opted to do 30 days of hard labor in prison; of unknown causes; in Rock Hill, S.C. What was dubbed the "jail, no bail" tactic relieved activists of a financial burden and inspired similar protests. In 2001, McCullough, the leader of the nine, told fellow protester and journalist David Williamson, "I guess if we had to do it today...
...Wilson’s negotiators in the Treaty of Versailles. He Lamont was also a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a Crimson president. Two-time candidate for Senate Corliss Lamont ’24, Ned’s great-uncle, was a director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for 22 years, was a vocal opponent of McCarthyism, and won a suit against the Central Intelligence Agency after he discovered that the intelligence agency had been reading his mail.The Harvard connections continue. Ned’s grandfather, Thomas S. Lamont...
...Teddy Roosevelt but to another New Yorker—Robert F. Kennedy ’48, the Empire State's one-time senator. A crusader who took on some of the toughest fights of his day—against mobbed-up unions, for example, and in favor of the civil rights movement—Kennedy, like Spitzer, was seen by critics as ruthless and arrogant. Supporters, on the other hand, saw a fundamentally decent man with the spine to effect change...
...really means, I thought while walking the once-bloodshed Gettysburg battleground. But then I put Lincoln’s words in rightful context. There was no single “people” in America when he delivered the Gettysburg Address. He spoke in the middle of a bitter civil war to encourage one half of “the people” to keep fighting the other half.Lincoln’s words ring true to Americans now, comfortable in our certainty that we are one people. When Americans talk about the situation in Iraq, there?...