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...Franklin H. Epstein, professor at Harvard Medical School and physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will be remembered as a researcher, confidant, mentor, and distinctly, as a singer. “He was a perfect tenor, a beautiful voice,” said Katherine Hessler, a former student and researcher in Epstein’s lab. Each year on July 14, Epstein would serenade his research lab with songs from the French Revolution. “He was always whistling, humming, or singing. He was a very musical guy.” Epstein passed away last Wednesday...
...appears to be the best team in the Ivies to this point, Harvard will be tested next weekend by a Penn squad that defeated Princeton 14-9 on Friday night. It doesn’t help that Harvard is an abysmal 1-12 in its last 13 visits to Franklin Field, with the lone win in that stretch coming in the Crimson’s perfect 2004 season. GROUNDED Harvard’s rushing attack, which has struggled at times this season, managed just four total yards against Columbia’s stingy defense on Saturday. Though the lack...
...compared this year’s situation to 1992, when Clinton beat George H.W. Bush, and joked that “maybe no more Bush family is good for the Republican Party.” “Obama might have more of a chance than any Democrat...since [Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904] to really be a major transformative Democratic president,” he said. Galston, also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, said that structural effects such as the condition of the economy and the unpopularity of the Iraq war prefigured the election results...
...borderline offensive and stereotypical white trash karaoke bar. And who should be called up to sing T-Pain’s hit “I Can’t Believe It” but a middle-aged Asian business man in a suit? Unbeknownst to poor Franklin, however, T-Pain looks on from a grainy TV in the VIP room. Franklin’s barely coherent performance is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and T-Pain rushes out from the VIP to take over the mic and spit invective about other artists swagger-jacking...
...Just a little more than 10 years ago," Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin told TIME this week, "it was inconceivable to any of us that we would see an African American win a national party's ticket and then compete effectively. It's mind-boggling," she continued, "how much this means about the opportunities available to all people - Asians, Latinos and other people who've historically been locked out of the system." (See pictures of Election 2008 in the heart of the Civil Rights struggle...