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...century did nothing to improve his disposition. In 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated. His successor was Theodore Roosevelt, McKinley's 42-year-old Vice President, a blustery hero of the Spanish-American War whom Twain regarded as heedlessly adventurous in his foreign policy. "The Tom Sawyer of the political world of the 20th century," he called Roosevelt. Of course, Twain had been a great deal like Tom himself--as a boy, and as a man for that matter--but that was before becoming the conscience of a nation, "the representative, and prophetic, voice of principled American dissent...
...With her 1100 career kills and 1292 career digs, Mahon joins Melissa Forcum ’99 as only the second Crimson player with at least 1000 kills and 1000 digs in her career. She led the team with 333 kills this past season and tied with junior Kathryn McKinley for second in digs with 298. She also moved to the top of the all-time leaderboard in service aces, posting 23 this season to bring her four-year total to 117. Fellow senior Mimi Hanley started all but one match, finishing fourth on the team with 234 kills...
America's first president, George Washington, is on Mount Rushmore. So is the third, Thomas Jefferson. But there is only the merest crevice between them where the second, John Adams, might have been. Nor has Adams ever been on the face of a regular piece of U.S. currency. William McKinley got the $500 bill, for God's sake...
...fall in the polls, who hash out the byzantine intricacies of health care or foreign policy, to do a simple thing: Embrace the anarchy in your life. I don’t mean for you to take up a black flag, riot in the streets, or shoot President McKinley. I mean something that is more human than political wonkery, something you forget as you are overcome by primaries and polls. Politics is important, but some things in life should remain personal...
...coalesce, and it gives teams something to work toward,” Tanjeloff said. According to Segal, the purpose of I^3 is to encourage the people who have outstanding ideas but who have never had the resources to pursue them. The main sponsors of the competition are the McKinley Family, the Heller Family Foundation, TECH, Highland Capital Partners, and the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. I^3 plans to hold its launch party Saturday at the Queen’s Head Pub. To emphasize the multitrack and innovative nature of the challenge, the event will feature trivia, Lego-building...