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...flocks of other first-years led us to the shop on JFK Street where the owner handed each of us a white shirt with an oversized "Class of '96" in crimson lettering. With my class year emblazoned on the front, this T-shirt contributed even more to my feeling of belonging at Harvard. That night, several hundred of my classmates and I added the '96 T-shirt to our wooden dressers...
Juan E. Garcia '99 wrote this spring that JFK, by promoting "hope and optimism, courage and sacrifice," gave the world "more than just a glimpse of his potential, [his words] evoked the potential of those listening." And Brandon Hofmeister '99, asserted in a moving personal essay that JFK's words still have the power to pull people toward him. "When I consider John F. Kennedy," Hofmeister wrote, "I am able to see the man, but I believe the myth.... My feelings are more powerful and more important than my dispassionate analysis of his accomplishments. This is not ignorance...
Richard Reeves, author of the 1993 study, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, has said this: "The final judgment of a leader of democracy [is] whether he or she brings out the best or the worst of the people. On that score, I rate JFK a great leader...
When Simpson spoke at the Institute of Politics on March 11 about his plans for curtailing legal and illegal immigration, nearly 150 undergraduates representing 20 student organizations protested along JFK Street...
...days before his fatal canoe accident, the former CIA director gave one of his last interviews to the CD-ROM magazine Blender. The June/July issue offers a grainy video, recorded at a sidewalk cafe in Washington, in which Colby ruminates on Oswald-as-commie-spy stories, bullet trajectories and JFK director Oliver Stone. Colby's conclusion: "You have to look at [the assassination] suspiciously," but there's no definitive proof anyone but Oswald was involved. Afterward, Blender reporter James Gordon Meek thanks Colby for his candor: "You talk about the Kennedy thing more than anyone alive." Hmmmm. Mr. Stone...