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General Robert C. Davenport '44 joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps at Harvard in June 1942. Thirteen months later he went on active duty in the Army. In 1986, he retired with the rank of major general...
...Davenport was sent to join the 27th Division in the Philippines to prepare for the invasion of Japan. But he and others said they were glad the action they planned was unnecessary...
...second proved to be the case, as Jim Davenport, the projected starter for the year, fractured a vertebrae in the first game of the year and was lost for the season. The Ivy League race was very close, but for the Crimson was defeated by the Elis to finish the season at 4-3 Ivy, 4-5 overall...
...majority of gay parents are women, both because courts are more apt to award custody to mothers and because of the lesbian baby boom. Gay men are increasingly seeking to join them. Tim Fisher lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his longtime lover Scott Davenport and their daughter Kari, 3, and son Fritz, 1. The children, biologically Fisher's, were conceived via surrogate mothers. Fisher is a stay-at-home dad: "I didn't just want to become a parent. I wanted a family. I wanted the hands-on experience." Davenport admits, "I was skeptical. But becoming parents...
...problem, ironically, is that the enormous system of levees built up over more than 200 years may be working too well. As the flood recedes and cities like Davenport begin the dismal task of cleaning up, sharp questions are being raised about the wisdom of the nation's approach to flood control, and the cost, both financial and environmental, of a program that relies on man-made structures to contain the mighty river. Over the past seven decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars constructing an elaborate flood-control network, including 7,000 miles...