Word: franklins
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...Benjamin Franklin once remarked that the beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of your own ignorance. This is no longer true. Nowadays, the knowledge of your own ignorance is the beginning of a race towards a computer with Internet access...
...stumbled onto a street speech by a local spellbinder: Adolf Hitler, two years before the Third Reich came to power. In 1936 Cooke wandered into an alley during Harvard's tricentennial celebration and saw two Secret Service men lean into a limo and lift out the polio-stricken "Franklin Roosevelt, inert as a sack of potatoes." In 1968 he was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, and filed one of the sharpest, coolest reports ever filed under the pressure of deadline and desperation...
...Obama has said lifting up Detroit is one of his top priorities, but even he might have mixed feelings about throwing his weight around before he takes office. In that respect, the stalemate is a bit reminiscent of the economic crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1932 as President-elect, says Brookings Institution historian Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes...
...snap, Belasco tried to run it, and his inability to get the first down gave the Crimson the ball at the Penn 30. BREAKING THE DROUGHT Going into Saturday’s contest, Harvard was an abysmal 1-12 in its last 13 visits to Penn’s Franklin Field, dating back to 1982. “I’ve been here for 15 years, so I guess I prefer to see the glass as half full,” Murphy said, pointing out that that stretch exceeds his tenure as head coach. “We?...
PHILADELPHIA—The demons of Franklin Field seemed to be rising again. The Crimson, an abysmal 1-12 at the Philadelphia landmark since 1982, was on the verge of coughing up a 17-0 third-quarter lead and, with it, first place in the Ivy League standings.But Harvard (8-1, 5-1 Ivy), as it has all season, finished with a flourish, as senior Ryan Barnes grabbed his third interception of the day in the end zone with 10 seconds remaining, and the Quakers (5-4, 4-2) threatening at the Crimson’s 12-yard line...