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...memoir, Schlesinger wrote that he grew bored by his junior year, only drawn out of his doldrums by his History and Literature thesis on the New England Transcendentalist Orestes A. Brownson...
...that catapulted Harvard into a fall season that would hold just four more first-place nods but did result in 18 top-three finishes overall. Though sophomore women’s captain Megan Watson and sophomore skipper Roberta Steele managed only sixth and seventh place, respectively, in the New England Women’s Singlehanded Championships in September, it was the men’s singlehanded performance the following month that truly showcased the Crimson’s talent at the top. Senior and former men’s captain Clay Johnson and junior Kyle Kovacs issued a dominating performance...
...witnesses and a priest corroborating Coakley's alibi, his South Bronx community believed in his innocence. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who had once worked together as public defenders in the Bronx, thought they could help him. The attorneys had just learned about a new technology being tested in England: DNA typing, which compared DNA sequences from crime scene evidence to sequences in the suspect's DNA. With this intriguing defense mechanism potentially available to them, Scheck and Neufeld took on Coakley's appeal...
...long as it is not an official activity that requires unwilling persons to endure it. Lots of praying goes on in schools across the U.S. The problem is not prayer but attempts by some Christians to control everyone else. That leads to theocracy, something the settlers of New England tried and found wanting but that Falwell seems to have thought...
...the NFL's New England Patriots, the loss of defensive end Marquise Hill in a Jet Skiing accident over Memorial Day weekend was, in the words of coach Bill Belichick, "stunning and tragic." Hill's loss will be felt just as acutely in his hometown of New Orleans, where the Super Bowl winner and former LSU star spent much of his time and money rebuilding homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was spending the holiday weekend refurbishing his mother's house. Hill and a friend, who survived, took the Jet Skis out on Lake Pontchartrain without life jackets...