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There's no doubting that Obama's candidacy represents the shattering of many of the racial barriers that have long been entrenched in America. But it is also worth tempering those expectations. Standing in the crisp breeze along Chicago's Michigan Avenue, on the night of Obama's election, Freddie Arnett, a 51-year-old maintenance supervisor, expressed hope that Obama would show concern for urban affairs. But Arnett acknowledged, "I know it's going to take time...
...some je ne sais quoi of their subject, effortlessly revealing in a single frame either some private moment of the public persona, or some prominent, popular understanding of the individual. The signature element to the Karsh images is the interplay between black and white, shadow and light, and the crisp, clean, solid lines that lend the prints their clarity and poignant definition. It is this element that crystallizes the personalities of the subjects in the eyes of the beholder. Eisenhower, Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Bogart, Loren, Karloff, Hepburn, Auden, Hemingway, Shaw, Einstein, Cousteau, Keller, Ernst, Picasso, and O’Keefe...
With the air crisp, temperatures in the low 50s, and clear skies, weather conditions for the 44th annual Head of the Charles Regatta could not have gotten any better.Fittingly, both the Harvard men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams took advantage of the great weather and fared extremely well in an event that featured almost 2000 boats and over 8000 rowers.While the other three crews—the lightweight four, the lightweight eights, and the championship eights—held their own against the rigorous competition, it was, as always, the Crimson’s heavyweight championship four...
...staples of the archetypal Oktoberfest: a beer and a brat.Vic C. Mahillon, a resident of Brighton, said that he enjoyed the authentic German food served at a beer-garden booth set up by Charlie’s along Mt. Auburn Street.“The outside is tight and crisp, the inside is soft and juicy—one bite and your mouth explodes [with] German flavor,” Mahillon said while chowing down a bratwurst. “I went to Germany in 2006 for the [World Cup] and this is exactly what I got—it?...
...grows crisp and the leaves crunch underfoot, the true sign of the new season is upon us—the return of Ivy League football to Harvard Stadium. Following a pair of road games, the Crimson (2-1, 0-1 Ivy) hopes to make the most of its return home as it faces undefeated Cornell (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) at noon tomorrow...