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...Harvard College’s 56 Native students. They represent a variety of backgrounds and interests: Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06 is from Brooklyn, NY, the grandson of Taino and Seminole tribal members; Sophia A. Taula ’04, part of both the Umatilla and Nez Perce tribes in the Pacific northwest, spent a year living on the Umatilla Reservation; and John T. Sieg ’07, part Oklahoma Cherokee, is a member of ROTC and the Green Party...
...Grease, grease, grease. First a coat of lanolin ... then a coat of heavy grease ... applied to the strong stumpy body ... [She] splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez [France] ... She swam the first four miles in three hours ... [After] she had been swimming for eleven hours, the water blackened fast. a squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face ... For two hours the current would run against her ... She was no nearer the shore. For two hours, with truncheon legs that never stopped kicking, with failing arms that beat...
...miniature tepee or $38 Victorian commode. The genius behind American Girl's high-end products is that moms feel good about dropping a lot of cash on low-tech, wholesome Americana. Most of the dolls depict 9year-old fictional heroines at various points in American history, including Kaya, a Nez Perce tribe member in 1764, and Josefina, a Latina on hand for the opening of the Santa Fe Trail. The company also sells six novels about each of the historical dolls, which offer more depth than your basic Barbie...
...cover photo of President Franklin Roosevelt project an image that Democrats today should emulate? "With the fat-cat aura generated by his pince-nez and cigarette holder as he rode down the street in his fancy car, the rakishly grinning F.D.R. cut perhaps the least Democratic profile I've ever seen," wrote a Massachusetts reader. Others, perhaps a bit defensive about the the current slate of Democratic candidates, wanted to turn the tables. "I look forward to a future issue of TIME examining 'Why They Don't Make Republicans Like They Used To,'" wrote a New Yorker. "The cover should...
Samuel N. Penney, chair of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, said the memorandum will be especially helpful with coordination of law enforcement and public safety, as the residents of rural north central Idaho expect an influx of visitors over the next few years to celebrate the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s expedition...