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...every bit as angry about the Bush Administration as do the Democrats. One man, dressed in a jacket and tie, stands up and confesses he's a lifelong Republican who can't vote for Bush because of his "fiscal irresponsibility." Another Republican, a prohibitively large corrections officer named Gary Morgan, tells me he's disgusted by the way Bush has prosecuted the war in Iraq and by his party's "culture of corruption." He's impressed by Carney, a Navy Reserve intelligence officer who is also a college professor. "It's nice to be able to vote for somebody with...
...trust shown by the coaching staff, allowing just two runs until he was bumped during a two-run Florida sixth. He yielded just two hits and three walks overall—an “amazing” performance for a first-year player, according to captain Morgan Brown.“He showed a lot of poise,” Brown said. “I’m not sure if his stuff was really there [on Friday]. He has a very good pitcher’s makeup. He didn’t get flustered...
...commercial success. For lack of a better term, we can call them “the pre-professionals.”He is currently completing two scripts to submit to Hollywood producers, an ambitious goal. Most Harvard screenwriters consider it an accomplishment to finish even one screenplay.Garrett D. Morgan ’08, a sophomore transfer from New York University (NYU), had a more uncommon motivation for getting started—he was born into the industry.“It was always a prevalent part of my life,” he says of the movie world...
...appear to the naked eye that the Oscar situation has been improving for black performers in recent years—with Jamie Foxx’s best actor win last year, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington’s simultaneous best actress and actor victories in 2002, Morgan Freeman’s reception of best supporting actor honors, and increasingly abundant nominations across categories—this perception represents a grave oversimplification of reality. In terms of their treatment of black actors and films, the Academy Awards have often been at best disappointing, and at worst, downright offensive. This year...
...defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless, and down. He had been an endurance guy: a high school champion on the local...