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Schlesinger said that while there is “no doubt” that Harvard received slave money, the role of slave money at Harvard was smaller than at Brown because the slave trade was much larger in Rhode Island than in Massachusetts...
...true,” I replied. “That’s one item of clothing which I know is never coming back!” And then we laughed like hyenas. I am using this example, not to illustrate the demerits of the educational system in Rhode Island, but instead to describe how utterly bewildered I am by the ankle boot phenomenon. I actually can’t wrap my small, pea-like brain around them. When ankle boots showed up at fashion shows, I figured that they were one of those ironic things—like assless...
...Vegemite mess, for those who have been living on a desert island - or at least one that's not Australia - for the last week is the complete lack of clarity over whether Vegemite has been banned. There were some scuffles at the Canadian border on the weekend and it was intimated that Vegemite was no longer to be imported because it contains folate. Then the Food and Drug Administration said Vegemite was not banned, because the folate in it was the not-banned sort of folate or something. But Kraft, the maker of Vegemite, still seems to think...
Democratic candidate for New York State Senate Brooke M. Ellison ’00, one of the many Harvard alums seeking political office this year, is no stranger to facing difficult battles. Though her most recent challenge is for a Long Island Senate seat against incumbent Rep. John Flanagan, she faced adversity when she became paralyzed from the neck down as a result of a 1990 car accident. The accident changed her life forever, but it did not stop her from earning degrees from Harvard College and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her inspirational story—portrayed...
...their top concern in the city’s last biannual survey in 2004. According to a paper by Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser, the Cambridge-Newton area experienced the third-fastest rate of housing price growth between 1980 and 2004—behind only Long Island, N.Y., and Boston-Quincy.City officials said that Cambridge is addressing the problem. “When it comes to affordable housing, I do believe we do more than any city in the commonwealth,” Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio said in an interview yesterday. But when the city offers affordable housing...