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Harvard demolished an obviously outmatched Cornell squad in nine straight games at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, then battled against Franklin and Marshall until after 9 p.m., eventually winning...
...giving the Indian perspective on American history, the films cannot resist a few cheap shots. When Iroquois representatives visit the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, they get warm praise from Benjamin Franklin. "Well done, Franklin," a colleague confides later. "You do know your savages." (Franklin's smug reply: "Thank you.") Still, these films show that TV history can do more than just confirm our prejudices and indulge our nostalgia (as in the recent orgy of Kennedy retrospectives). It can actually tell us something...
...Wasp style placed a high value on industry and success and a correspondingly low value on anything that was not useful. All the nose-to- the-grindstone maxims of Benjamin Franklin found eager Wasp readers. Unchallenged by medieval or socialist countermodels, the Protestant work ethic flourished here like an animal species without predators. Admiration for hard work and the expectation that hard workers would have something to show for it became the starlings of the American soul...
...first American to think so. "No nation was ever ruined by trade," said Benjamin Franklin. But opponents of NAFTA felt otherwise, inspired in part by fears that American companies couldn't make it in foreign markets. Given the sizable U.S. trade deficits of the 1980s, that sinking feeling was understandable. In fact, the gap this year may be the worst since 1988, an estimated $117 billion, up from last year's $84.3 billion. The main cause is the global recession, which slows demand for U.S. exports, while America's gathering recovery has boosted the demand for imports...
Since taking office, Clinton has exercised the first of these options more forcefully than any 20th century president except Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. But the Memphis speech was the first time he firmly embraced the second option and asserted his presidential role as a moral leader and a source of national inspiration in the mold...