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...year like 2008, when the economy trumps social issues, Catholics are most likely to return to their roots in the Democratic Party. And that's particularly true when they hear fellow Catholics arguing that Democrats reflect their religious values. McCain may have gotten a longer standing ovation on his way to the podium at the Al Smith Dinner and dropped references to "defending the rights of the unborn" in among his jokes. But it was Obama who won over Al Smith IV, the event's emcee and great-grandson of the historic candidate. "Awesome," Smith told Obama after the Democrat...
...current standards of international law, what occurred with the comfort women would be illegal,” said Ryan Y. Park, the club’s political and outreach chair. Park, a second-year student at the Law School, met Kang in 2007 in South Korea and wanted his fellow students to hear her story. “The mission of these surviving comfort women is for Japan to claim responsibility and apologize to the victims,” Park said. “It is important to give students an opportunity to hear this woman’s story...
...banjo player. She was beautiful, too. “Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing and strum the banjo (and a 12-string Gibson guitar to boot), but Karen Dalton didn’t pen a single track on either of the two albums she managed to record in her lifetime. Fully gripped by the cult...
...company. The young Ayers, inspired by the 1960s civil rights movement, later emerged as a leader of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon. He and other members of the group soon fled into seclusion, taking on assumed names. He and his wife, fellow radical Bernardine Dohrn, turned themselves in after charges were dropped because of tainted evidence. (Ayers' famous quote afterward: "Guilty as hell, and free as a bird. It's a great country.") By the mid-1980s, Ayers had re-emerged as an education scholar and was on track toward tenured status...
...quiet and respectful, but there’s a real creativity and exuberance in his playing,” NEC Chair of Jazz Studies Ken Schaphorst says. “Another part of his personality comes out.” Campbell also feeds off the energy of his fellow musicians. “He takes everyone’s styles and uses them,” attendee Christopher M. Krogslund ’09 says...