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...contrast to the diversity of athletic ability at Harvard, perhaps a result of the recent randomization, Yale found a clear athletic powerhouse in its Timothy Dwight (TD) college, which represented Yale in all three of the championship games...

Author: By Denaj. Springer, | Title: Bulldogs Stink in Intramurals, Too | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...this century, only Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1888, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Bush were of royal ancestry and elected to the presidency. That means 10 presidents of the 20th century were not of royal ancestry including Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy '40 and Ronald W. Reagan. It should be pointed out that Woodrow Wilson best both TR and Taft in 1912, and Jimmy Carter beat Gerald R. Ford in 1976, despite the fact that Wilson and Carter had no known royal ancestry, although their opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Genealogy in Burke's Peerage Is Dubious | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

...feeling good. Sen. Kerry has been all over the state...We're happy where we are, but we are not going to take a single thing for granted," Kerry spokesperson Dwight D. Robson said. "We are going to continue to push for votes until the polls close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decision '96: Massachusetts, Nation Head to Polls | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

Missouri, the birth state of Mark Twain and once the gateway to the West, the starting point of the Pony Express and the Santa Fe Trail, is a microcosm of America. Politically, it has voted for every presidential winner in the 20th century except Dwight Eisenhower. Geographically, it is the center of the country, containing elements of Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Economically, it has rich farmland, thriving suburbs, big cities and impoverished ghettos. As farm communities die in the north, retirement and tourist centers like Branson flourish in the south. And it's a home to the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MISSOURI | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...powerless to achieve what he wanted even when he knew what it was. To win over the party's most conservative activists--and it is they who largely controlled the nomination process--Dole bent himself out of shape. As a moderate, mainstream Republican in the mold of his hero, Dwight Eisenhower, Dole never became comfortable with his own campaign's core themes and strategy, the tactics and messages designed by his professional handlers that he felt obliged to follow. "I'd been beaten before, and you have to learn from the people who beat you," Dole explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HE GOT THERE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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