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...remembers no important dates or times or locales-claims that Kerry once threatened him with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when Kerry came running out of the guntub screaming ?ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.? Then he turned...
Vermont defenseman Chris Mounsey tumbled through the crease, careening off a Harvard defender and straight into Dov Grumet-Morris. As he lay on top of the Crimson’s junior netminder, Mounsey stealthily landed a pair of blows to Grumet-Morris’ head while the officials skated away, unawares...
...becomes increasingly clear that the most urgent reasons to elect him have to do with the future. All but one of the last few press releases from his campaign mention Bush more than Kerry, leaving precious little space for a positive plan for the future. Worse, when he does lay out innovative policies, there is little sign of them in the press. When Vanessa Kerry, his daughter, spoke to students at Harvard last week, she offered the most compelling case for a Kerry presidency I have yet heard, and—this is novel—she did it entirely...
When I first heard, I instantly recalled her graceless fall into the pond at the Botanical Gardens, then the time she fell down a flight of stairs in middle school and lay on the marble floor in a sad crumple. Now, I couldn’t imagine that she wouldn’t, couldn’t, rise again so we could dry her soaked jeans in the public bathroom or so I could walk her to the nurse’s office for Band-Aids. How could we not laugh about it later; how was it that she wouldn?...
...rally to show support for the labor movement (even though the Director of the Harvard Union of Clerical Workers and Technical Workers dismissed the NLC’s aims as unrealistic), Mahan blithely claimed, “I don’t see a pressing need for us to lay off people right now. This is just about keeping the endowment at a ridiculous level, which I don’t think...