Word: masons
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...what was perhaps the highlight of the event, guest speaker Abner Mason '85, the chief secretary of Massachusetts and a former student Foundation member, read a proclamation on behalf of Mass. Gov. Jane M. Swift declaring April 26 to henceforth be "Harvard Foundation Day" in Massachusetts...
...parking lot a vivacious woman caught my English accent and nodding her head toward a bearded man standing next to her, inquired if I knew that I was in the presence of a legend?! As it happens, I recognized the figure as '60s/'70s musician Dave Mason from previous encounters. The woman, one Laurie Henry (who described herself as his publicist), then proceeded to give me that purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with...
...piece for TIME, NBC news anchor Brian Williams suggested that people north of the Mason-Dixon line "wondered what the big deal was" after Earnhardt's accident. That was insulting. I live in a small town in Minnesota, far away from the South. Everyone I know has been affected by this loss. Earnhardt was my hero, and I have been in tears ever since the accident. I never met him, but to millions of people, losing him was like losing their best friend. JON MARQUETTE Garfield, Minn...
...have watched the formula work in various countries ever since. This is what is happening in Iraq. I don't know the best way to deal with Saddam Hussein, but I do know that cementing allegiance among his people while killing children is not the way. JOHN F. MASON Barcelona
Millions of Americans, mostly in the red states, if you recall your election charts, lost a hero the instant the black car veered violently into the wall. Every major newspaper south of the Mason-Dixon Line rushed to put out a special section, while millions living north of that line wondered what the big deal...