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...against Barbara Lee--the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland who cast the lone vote against war--with a campaign titled "It's O.K. to Love America." For now, Berkeley's woes have inspired the town of Santa Cruz, another former hippie haven down the California coast, to quietly shelve its own antiwar resolution. Making foreign policy, it seems, can be bad for business...
They were, in some small way, supposed to make us feel more secure and informed, perhaps even confident in our leaders. But by the time officials had ringed nuclear power plants with armed roadblocks and West Coast commuters had begun detouring around some bridges, the latest round of terrorist-attack warnings-from Washington's vague bulletin to California's detailed advisory-left many people feeling quite the opposite: confused, afraid and in some cases downright angry. "We're drinking all the coffee we can," Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said with a large dose...
...Davis cited the Golden Gate and Bay bridges in San Francisco, among others, as likely targets, though they were never specified in the various warnings put out by the FBI, Customs Service and Coast Guard. Some counterterrorism officials were flabbergasted by Davis' disclosure, but President Bush refused to criticize his actions, diplomatically stating that "as a former Governor, I didn't particularly care when the Federal Government tried to tell me how to do my business...
From the 2000 applicants, Murphy and the coaching staff decide on a top 75 or 100. Murphy then flies coast-to-coast and meets with most of the team’s desired prospects and evaluates them up close. After his trips, Murphy submits a list to the Admissions Office and from there the 35 strongest candidates are admitted to Harvard. Since the Ivy League sets a matriculation cap of 35 athletes per year, both Murphy and admissions officers must be extremely selective. In fact, compared to the College-wide admission figure of 10.9 percent, becoming a Harvard football player...
Adams: James Phinney Baxter, the first Master of Adams House, named the new House after John Adams and the Adams family. The House coat-of-arms is derived from the seal ring of John Quincy Adams. Master Baxter made the background gold to symbolize the Gold Coast and the five sprigs of oak leaves stand for the five buildings of Adams House. The House motto, “Alteri Seculo,” is from Cicero’s “he who plants trees labors for the benefit of a future generation...