Word: nelsons
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Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful opponent in 1944, Thomas Dewey, ran again in 1948, when he famously did not defeat Harry Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest...
Clinton drew on the examples of previous Class Day speakers and his own personal hero, Nelson Mandela, who led the fight against apartheid in South Africa, to inspire seniors...
Though gender-neutral housing is currently available for students who identify as transsexual, Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson says the College hopes to regularize the rules across the Houses and create a more transparent process for obtaining gender-neutral housing...
...Nelson says that Mass. Hall would be used as a back-up for emergency space which already exists in most Houses. The emergency space is used to house upperclassmen who need to move out of their current living situation for whatever reason...
...demonstration during my time at Harvard—nothing in our four years quite matched it. But I watched the anti-apartheid movement soldier on, sitting mostly on the sidelines as befits a newspaper reporter. And I watched in the years that followed, when the hero of that movement, Nelson Mandela, in fact turned out to be one of the few great giants of the twentieth century. (It’s still embarrassing to remember that the wise men of the College, President Derek C. Bok chief among them, placed their bets instead on the avaricious tribal leader Mangosothu Buthelezi...