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...Roosevelt's sons were fantastic scoundrels," says Bonnie Angelo, author of First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives. They would sneak around behind the lamplighter on Lafayette Square extinguishing the lamps he lit. They'd slide down the grand staircase on kitchen trays. "When Archie was sick, his brother Quentin - with the aid of a White House staffer - brought their pony Algonquin up to his room in the elevator to make him feel better," says Angelo. These pranks were tolerated, she notes, because the President enjoyed them more than anyone. "The only thing he stopped...
...habit before taking office, smoking in the residence was still common, with ashtrays on the tables at state dinners and free cigarettes for guests. Lyndon Johnson quit before taking office, as did Ronald Reagan, who nonetheless didn't mind if visitors smoked. When French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac lit up in the Oval Office, Reagan's personal secretary recalled, a china dish was quickly found to serve as an ashtray...
Sugata Bose, a History professor and a native of India, set the tone for the evening with a personal reflection: “The lamps that you have lit here in Harvard Yard will help to dispel the darkness that has been threatening to envelop us in South Asia...
Standing in a circle three rows deep across the stage of Tercentary Theater, over 100 students, professors, and friends of the Harvard community turned to their neighbors last night and lit candles in a vigil for victims of the last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai...
...windows facing the street, and turned out the lights. They stayed up all night listening to the news and trying to talk about other things, like basketball, to get their minds off the gunfights outside.Singh said that the terrorists were throwing grenades indiscriminately in the street and that any lit building could have drawn fire.Singh said these attacks were particularly frightening because the gunmen were running around with AK-47s and were not suicide bombers.The terrorists were dressed in “western casuals,” Singh said, which made him and his friends even more wary and determined...