Word: clay
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...gave a knowing head nod to the kid in Winthrop with my same “BAMA” shirt, I realized my roots still hold firm in the red clay of Alabama...
...centuries, our elections have suffered from a flawed, plurality voting system. Our system produces outcomes in which the winning candidate often does not represent the policy preferences of the majority of voters. In the presidential election of 1844, when slave-owner James Polk defeated widely-respected abolitionist Henry Clay, Polk’s fellow abolitionist James Birney accounted for the narrow difference in many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz...
...then offered the coordinates of this star to Frebel, who departed for Chile to take a closer look with the Magellen-Clay Telescope using high-resolution spectroscopy. Though this kind of spectroscopy takes much longer, it provides more details about the “personality” of the star, Frebel said...
...Clay A. Dumas ’11, a former Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House...
...backroom of the exhibition presents more recent efforts in animation at Harvard. Four televisions showcase work by current students and recent alums. Another screen shows a short film of the exhibition’s co-curator, Terah L. Maher, along with the sheets of clay sandwiched in Plexiglas that were used to make the movie. The students’ films track a wide range of graphic and conceptual complexity. A work by Lisa A. Haber-Thomson ’02 consists exclusively of stick figures, but deals with the beautiful image of a woman trying to stitch together a torn...