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...urchin from the book by Kay Thompson. But perhaps ex-con turned innkeeper-to-the-image-conscious Ian Schrager loved her a teensy bit too much. Schrager published a parody of the children's classic in book form as a high-concept promotional brochure for his Miami hostel, the Delano. In Delia at the Delano, by Bob Morris, DELIA, right, sun-dries her own tomatoes, does Barbie liposuction and has a Prada ant farm. It's not unwitty stuff, but Thompson isn't amused. "I think they should be arrested," the nonagenarian eccentric says of the book's creators...
...Representatives. In 1931, Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (this was obviously not a time when a woman could opt merely to keep her own name) became the first female U.S. Senator. Frances Perkins led us into the White House when she was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman cabinet member...
Among the waves of activist and youthful vigor that permeated the student body in 1969, Franklin Delano Raines '71 remained a calm voice of moderation...
...advantage of the confusion on the right and work to attract disaffected moderates from the Republican ranks. However, College Democrats have been doing the exact opposite. Harvard's proud Democratic tradition includes the intellectual foundations of the New Deal and New Frontier, giving America luminaries and presidents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38. Today, however, Harvard Democrats are intellectually moribund. As U.S. News and World Report wrote in November, "At Harvard--long the cradle of liberal ideas and leaders--young Republicans outnumber Democrats...
Harvard offers a diverse array of opportunities for people of talent to associate, and the final clubs hardly stand as gatekeepers to future social or economic achievement. We've come a long way from the time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 identified his greatest failure as getting blackballed from the Porcellian Club. Future success is a product more of skill, dedication, and luck, than connections with wealthy club alumni. And at least that way you don't have to wear drag...