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...letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...
...could blame him? Anyone with Murphy’s track record—from the accurately but unfortunately named Anders Blewett ’03 to hapless senior Jim Morocco, no longer on the team—would be hard-pressed not to shudder, if only from force of habit, at the thought of his special teams unit trudging out onto the field for a game-deciding kick...
...case of new hire Jim Burke, the third man to helm the Harvard men’s golf team in as many seasons, that is most likely a good thing...
...regular gas, and shoppers at Costco in North Miami Beach waited on line for bottled water. Some residents of Key Biscayne, south of Miami, bagged beach sand to protect their homes from flooding. Others expressed no desire to evacuate. "We've been through so many of these things," says Jim Brewster, a longtime Key Biscayne resident. "I'm not going anywhere unless it's a Category...
Perhaps most damaging, however, was the open letter some California Republicans issued last week denouncing the Governor's dismal record on placing Latinos in key posts and calling the state G.O.P. "morally wrong and politically stupid" for its shoddy treatment of Latino candidates. Jim Lopez, state chairman for the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and an Arnold booster, said of those who signed the letter, "If these folks wanted miracles, maybe they should have elected St. Augustine." Stranger people have made it into office. --By Jeffrey Ressner