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...much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves internecine Calvinist squabbling. Thankfully, Vowell, author of the sharply funny armchair histories Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, injects a bit of Technicolor into her portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core...
Race is an unavoidable factor on most of L.A.'s school campuses, where such outbreaks have occurred occasionally in recent years - though rarely involving such numbers. There is ongoing debate about how much tension between the races plays a role. Activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable called for black and Latino students join in a "Unity Day" against violence, saying L.A. school officials had failed for too long to act to quell tensions between the groups. "That failure is a prescription for continuing disaster," Hutchinson said...
Buck could not be reached for comment yesterday, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where Buck now works, declined to comment...
...Assassination Vacation,” which takes a historical tour of the scenes of three presidential assassinations. She is now writing a book on the history of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Puritan squabbling between John Winthrop, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson that resulted in the founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut. “Do they tell you when they’re indoctrinating you in Harvard history that your school was founded because a bunch of poor Massachusetts boys were outsmarted by a girl and didn’t want it to happen again...
...compressed calendar doesn't help Obama, who with more time might have more success with Latino voters, says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and author of a forthcoming book The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House. "The Latino community has a level of trust with her that has been built over time that he hasn't had the time to grow," Hutchinson said. "If he had more time, if the California primary were six months away and he could spend time with elected officials, he would have a fair shot then of really breaking...