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...Dan V. Kroop ’10, the campaign manager for Andrea R. Flores ’10, emphasized last night that the Flores campaign would be “out in force” today...
...fast-food restaurant. Earlier this month, however, Getrag announced that the entity established to build the Tipton plant would file for bankruptcy and that the plant would not open, mainly because Chrysler backed out of its agreement. "We had big ideas, big plans," says Tipton's mayor, Dan Delph. "But now they're on hold...
...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...
...Milk isn't about Dan White, except as a repository of the straights' resentment that dogged Milk and brought him down. The script by Dustin Lance Black, who worked on HBO's polygamy series Big Love (he was the only Mormon on the writing staff), is all about process: how Harvey Milk changed things. His style was charm mixed with genial bullying. He conveyed passion with good humor. In the movie, challenged by White to answer if two men can reproduce, he replies, "No, but God knows we keep trying." On the streets, he'd pick up a bullhorn...
...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...