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...main difference between us is that he is conservative in the sense of being inherently suspicious of change,” Bosco wrote of Mansfield in an e-mail. “He reveres old institutions for their own sake, and deeply admires proponents of aristocracy such as Edmund Burke. Mainstream American conservatism, in contrast, focuses heavily on liberty and the rights of the individual. Such conservatives venerate Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson over proponents of aristocracy like Burke...
...Edmund Halley, who would give his name to the celebrated comet, proposed a technique for gauging the distance from Earth to the sun by viewing transits from different vantage points. He died in 1742, before his idea could be tried...
...when his friend Edmund M.F. Rogers ’05 encouraged Conroy to audition for CityStep, the public service group whose red tennis shoes conspicuously dot Harvard’s Ivy landscape, he was skeptical. “I didn’t really want to join a club that was just a serious, kind of boring, endeavor,” he says...
...follows that we undergraduates should at least consider playing gourmand.Which is why, on a recent Tuesday night, I found myself skipping Quincy dining hall in favor of Harvest restaurant and partaking of one of their regular wine dinner events. This particular dinner was hosted by Steve Edmunds of Edmund St. John Vineyard and featured a series of four wines alongside customized dishes created by Harvest chef Eric Brennan...
...British Commonwealth, the 50s was a decade of great achievers: Sir Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, the Goons. The weekly radio show starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers defined silly comedy for postwar England, influenced the Beatles and Monty Python, and made me laugh when I listened to the shows on CD last year for a column on Sellers. Puns, outlandish narrative detours and other foolery are wildly evident in Milligan?s scripts. In the ?Ill Met by Goonlight? episode, the Goons land on Crete. Sellers: ?Ooh, this beach is hard.? Secombe: ?Then we must be on con-Crete...