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...must remain a nation united to defeat our enemies. They would like nothing better than to see the U.S. implode. We don't need the mainstream media to foment chaos and divisiveness. Enough already! We need the media to help unite us. United we stand; divided we fall. Harriet E. Rice Webster...
Yale seized the lead again halfway through the second half, however, when Harriet Thayer fed the ball to Sarah Driscoll, who slipped in around the outside, availing herself of a momentary lapse in the Harvard defense. But before the Bulldogs could establish control of the game, the Crimson began its surge behind Maasdorp’s shooting to close the door...
...foreperson was Brenda, a born-again Christian street preacher with whom I’d gotten friendly chatting about Harriet Beecher Stowe. Once deliberations started, she alone said she thought Ariane’s testimony was fabricated. I felt betrayed; how could she? I noticed a note she had written to herself: “I was the only [juror in the pool] who confessed faith in Christ.” I almost went crazy. This woman, with her unshakable faith, was going to hang the jury...
Incarnating amiability with an undercoat of evil can be a benison to an actor. Unfortunately for them, Dogville's old pros (including Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson and Blair Brown) have only attitudes, not characters, to play, and these are as flat as the lines on the floor. It's not a pretty sight: gifted actors with big ambitions and nothing purposeful to do. Only two things keep one's eyes on the screen: the spectacle of the gorgeous Kidman soldiering on as Grace's regality is defiled, and the suspicion that this...
Jean M. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson will be discussing their new books: Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories and Bound for the Promised Land Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. These two biographies of Harriet Tubman finally allow us to see the human being behind the self-liberated Underground Railroad American heroine. Larson has spent years researching the life and times of Harriet Tubman. Humez is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Free. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store...