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...Milk and Mayor George Moscone were shot dead by supervisor Dan White, an Irish-American Vietnam vet and former cop who had befriended Milk but opposed his agenda. Thousands of angry Milk-men filled the streets of San Francisco; their mourning turned to rioting. Diane Feinstein, president of the Board of Supervisors, succeeded Moscone as mayor. Tried for murder, White pleaded diminished capacity due to depression and a junk-food diet - what became known as the "Twinkie defense." His conviction on the reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter triggered another night of riots. White served five years of his seven-year...
...elected official award and the Kennedy Library does the same for potential community activist honorees. The recipients are selected by the New Frontier Awards committee, which includes IOP Director Bill P. Purcell, Kennedy Library CEO John Shattuck, and former Kennedy Library Director and advisor to President Kennedy Dan H. Fenn, Jr. ’44. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
With the sweet taste of their NCAA qualification times from Nov. 15's Regionals race still fresh, sophomores Dan Chenoweth and Claire Richardson brought home impressive results from yesterday’s NCAA Championship in Terra Haute...
...Crawford applying the offensive pressure. The final minutes of the game saw the Buffaloes sweep past Harvard with a tremendous 13-2 run, finishing the game 70-57. “We weren’t moving the ball well in the second half,” junior guard Dan McGeary said. “Our offense was stagnant and [Colorado] just really stepped it up at the end.” Freshman forward Keith Wright’s performance was one of the highlights of the game. Wright shot 9-for-15 from the field for a game-high...
...person’s gone, there’s another one there to pick it up.” Sophomores Nichole Slykhous, Meghan Cleary, and Thea Lee and freshmen Jeanne Mack, Alison Lee, Elizabeth Heller, and Kirsten Jorgenson also competed in the race. For the men, freshman Dan Stiles led the Crimson with a 39th-place, 26:05 finish in the five-mile race, down from his 26:27 finish at Heps. Sophomore Ryan Neely and rookie Stephen Couch finished just a hair apart, taking back-to-back 47th and 48th spots with times...