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...been 19 years since Timothy Crouse '68 wrote The Boys on the Bus, which chronicled the failures of election year reporting. That book and the critiques that followed have focused on the reporters' "pack mentality" and the candidates and journalists' inability to focus on the issues...
Democrats are forever calling the Republicans the party of the rich. But a new survey by the congressional newspaper Roll Call reports that of 28 SENATE MILLIONAIRES, 21 are Democrats. According to standard financial-disclosure forms, which often yield conservative estimates, Virginia Senator Charles Robb, a Democrat, leads the pack, with a net worth of at least $19 million (thanks mostly to wife Lynda Bird Johnson's family holdings). Among the other wealthiest Democrats: Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (net worth: $13.7 million), Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ($12.7 million), Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia ($8.7 million), Lloyd Bentsen of Texas...
JOHN NANCE GARNER (1940). As F.D.R. dithered over whether to run for a third term, Garner, who had opposed Roosevelt's pro-labor New Deal policies and his attempt to pack the Supreme Court, entered the presidential race himself. With the Nazi threat to Europe looming larger in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt engineered his own renomination and shunted Garner aside in favor of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former Republican but a loyal New Dealer...
Pennypacker's central circular staircaseis a great place for congregating. And people do."The Pack's" bright landings are full of people atall hours, and a four-story beer funnel makes anappearance on its open stairwell once a year orso. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, but theirquirky shapes offer a change of pace from thestandard Yard dorms...
Naturally, undergraduates eager to learn from the best and the brightest regularly pack the largest auditoriums for faculty luminaries courses. But the edge of the podium is the closest some of these professors ever get to undergraduates. And from the student's vantage point--the back of a crowded lecture hall--Harvard's biggest personalities tend to look pretty small...