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Historians in a rush may be guilty of both the journalist's errors and the utopian's projections. I have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent...
...with society. Sure, other public figures, such as actors and politicians, are also more open to media censure than they were in decades past (just imagine the wreckage that would have ensued had the current Washington press corps been able to sink its hooks into the womanizing ways of JFK), but pro athletes, compared to politicians and entertainers, are less insulated from the press and far less media-savvy...
BOSTON--A small group of Harvard students protested by day and camped by night outside the JFK Federal Building this weekend, joining over 100 other protesters against the U.S. Navy occupation of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
Sanchez, who is a Puerto Rican native, visited Vieques during winter break, and has been actively involved with Perl-Matanzo in the campaign to end U.S. testing there. She attended the protest on Friday and said she plans to camp out at the JFK building this Wednesday night...
Take the T to the end of a line. If it's the Red Line, get out at Columbia Point and go to the JFK Library and Museum...