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Residents say the most salient example of Currier's apparent shedding of its reputation as a brooding, divided place is last weekend's immensely successful dance marathon, an event which raised more than $10,000 for the Jefferson Park housing project following nearly a year of planning by more than 100 Currier residents...
...scout for a good spot from where to begin, various marathon organizers give the obligatory opening remarks, lauding the marathon's charitable cause--the Jefferson Park housing project in Cambridge which will receive the funds we raise--and offering encouragement. Currier House Master Dudley Herschbach estimates that 12 hours of dancing steps totals 13 miles of walking...
...dancers, however, are getting restless. We are still marathon innocents, and are actually anxious to end the speeches and start the music. And at last, once children from Jefferson Park have performed a choreographed dance to the theme from Fame, the disco bacchanalia begins...
Washington knew no foreign languages (Thomas Jefferson spoke or read five). Washington never traveled to Europe, while Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Jefferson all spent years there. He was not an accomplished public speaker. His military achievements were judged for their perseverance rather than their brilliance. Yet the battle of Trenton might have been as important a battle as this nation ever won. The Trenton victory brought the Revolution back to life. The colonies dared hope again for independence. France began to look with more favor on the American struggle, and Britain began to lose heart. But the battle...
More than 200 hearty dancers have signed up to participate in Harvard's first House sponsored marathon. The pledges that dancers will collect for their efforts will go to the Jefferson Park Housing Project...