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...Rahman, who was also a military commander, was captured by his enemies, sold to slave traders and eventually taken to a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he spent the next 40 years using his agricultural and management skills to turn its owner into one of the wealthiest men in the antebellum South. Through a chance reunion with a man that Rahman and his father once helped when he traveled in Africa, and the support of a local newspaper publisher, a campaign for his freedom began, and Rahman became one of the best-known faces of the strengthening abolitionist movement...
...last third-party candidate who got anywhere near the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and he had been President before. Since then, four third-party candidates have gotten more than 5% of the vote. And each of them had something Bloomberg lacks: a popular issue that the major parties wouldn't touch. In 1924, the gop ran Calvin Coolidge, the most conservative President of the 20th century, and the most boring. But his Democratic opponent, John W. Davis, was pretty conservative too. And so Robert La Follette, the only progressive in the race, won 17% of the vote...
Last week, while on vacation in the Berkshires, I came across a strange sight at the supermarket. On sale near the checkout aisles, New England Patriots and New York Giants jerseys, cupcakes, banners and balloons lay side-by-side. I realized that I was in one of a few strange, Twilight Zone-like patches in the world: a place where Boston and New York sports fans could co-exist in peace. Certainly, Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup lacks some of the Boston-New York bite to which sports fans have become so accustomed. What pushes this game past...
...news comes near the end of a lengthy review process investigating the $21-million-a-year organization’s activities in over 30 countries across five continents...
...think a lot of the credit has to go to my team though because they’ve been playing amazing in front of me.” Kessler’s record-breaking afternoon boosted her already stellar numbers on the season, leaving her at or near the top of every major statistical category for goalies in the NCAA. She paces the nation with a miniscule 0.88 goals against average, and her eight shutouts place her in a tie for first. Kessler’s .957 save percentage is good for second in the country, putting her right behind...