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...Santa Rosa, California. He was 88 years old. A New England native, Foote was born in Cambridge and attended Harvard College from 1935 to 1939. Two years later, he received his masters degree in economics from Columbia University. At Harvard, Foote lived in Whigglesworth his freshman year and in Eliot House, where he was elected to the House Committee. As a sophomore, he ran for Student Council President. In his early Crimson years, Foote was a sports writer, reporting on lightweight crew, before becoming managing editor his senior year. As a Quaker, his pacifist beliefs led him to serve...
...illegals, I sincerely hope they think harder about the thousands of young people marching in the streets, trying to protect their mothers and fathers. That might not be a revolution, but it is a start. Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Quincy dining hall stairs around 7 p.m. on Sunday were welcomed back from spring break not by the smiling face of the card-checker and the enticing aroma of vegetable lasagna, but by the cold, hard bars of a closed metal gate. In a scene that was echoed at Eliot House, which was one of the few upperclass dining halls open the night before College classes resumed, chaos reigned in the servery and in the seating area as students scrambled to get their hands on food and then chairs before either ran out. Apparently, no one had told the chefs...
...friends met me at the club; upon arriving, his first question was: “Is this it?” Yes, this is it. “There’s no more? Just this one room?” Yup. Just a space the size of an Eliot common room, but slightly more rectangular. A third of the space is occupied by the bar—with fairly decent beers on tap, though nothing spectacular—while a teeny stage sits at the far end of the room. A few stone toad idols sit above the bartender?...
...order us to educate any child who appears on our school doorstep but not give us the money to do it? Where are we going to find enough water? The congressional Hispanic caucus wants $1 billion in spending on roads and bridges and Customs officers; El Paso state senator Eliot Shapleigh and other Texas lawmakers have called for a Marshall Plan for the border; El Paso Congressman Sylvestre Reyes wants Bush to appoint a border czar who can cut through the red tape and make things happen...