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Damrosch also highlights some of Tocqueville’s less well-known views. By exploring Tocqueville’s experiences in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and many other Southern states, Damrosch addresses Tocqueville’s reservations about the treatment of race in the United States. Tocqueville was vehemently against the enslavement of blacks and the poor treatment of Native Americans, and concluded in an incredibly prescient manner that the discrimination against blacks in America would result in “the most horrible of all civil wars, and perhaps the destruction of one of the two races...
...There were performances during the race that were positive enough to provide the team optimism to move forward in the future,” Morris said. “My [2V] boat did well. I gave the race everything that I had, and that in itself is a huge accomplishment...
...can’t forget that the teams we’ve raced over the past few weeks are in the top five or six crews in the nation,” O’Leary said. “Winning might require new team combinations, but ultimately it’s going to come down to whoever’s in the lineup figuring out how to be faster on race...
...Dartmouth looks particularly strong this year,” O’Leary said. “The only way to get faster is to race fast crews. The downside to that is if you’re even a little bit off your game, you end up paying the price...
...they can take back control of Congress and beat Obama in 2012 is the widespread perception that the President, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid are hell-bent on increasing Washington's reach. The victory of Scott Brown in January's Massachusetts Senate race has made it an article of faith that Republicans can gain back the majority on Capitol Hill primarily by emphasizing government expansion, deficit spending and the threat of higher taxes. Republicans now also believe a challenge to the Administration's foreign policy acumen can serve as a secondary claim...