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...Arizona was in line to host a very lucrative little football game called the Super Bowl. The National Football League got involved and told Arizona to honor the holiday, threatening that “if anything was done to dishonor the memory of Dr. King,” the committee would vote to rescind the awarding of the Super Bowl to the state of Arizona. Even McCain’s midstream flip-a-roo was not enough; Arizona voters struck down the holiday, and the NFL ultimately changed the site of the 1993 Super Bowl from Tempe, Ariz. to Pasadena...
...World Bank, “When one takes into account all its benefits, educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.” A 2010 World Bank “News and Broadcast” article in honor of International Women’s Day corroborates Summers’ declaration, noting that a “one-year increase in the schooling of all adult females in a country is associated with an increase in GDP per capita of around $700.” Today, 18 years after Summers?...
Diana C. Wise ’09-’10, a History and Literature concentrator, has been awarded the 2010 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for her senior thesis. She was selected for this honor from among this year’s 89 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winners...
During his time at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Del., Wheeler was a member of the National Honor Society, earned himself a place in the top 10 percent of his class, and participated in the school’s marching band...
...when we assault manliness, we devalue men. Take a moment to admire Heinrich Harrer’s aggressive spirit of pursuit, Tom Sawyer’s territorialism, Nelson Mandela’s courage, and the stranger in the courtyard who held open the gate. Endless illustrations of manly nobility, honor, and courage abound on Harvard’s campus. To Harvard men: You are worthy of honor and respect...