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...answer is not to return to religion and Protestant values. No matter how much some conservatives may wish it, that era is over. William F. Buckley, still shamelessly venerated by the conservative establishment, opposed meritocratic admissions for racial and ethnic minorities at Yale in 1967 when he ran a guerilla campaign to obtain a seat on the Yale Corporation (he lost). Being a minority, I, like many others, am indebted to the liberal revolution...
...closing dinner, flags from each institution were placed along the second tier of the banquet hall. “Some guy from Australia with a mohawk went up and grabbed our flag,” recalls senior Dan Kettler, Benkreira’s roommate. “He ran off and we booked it trying to catch him. Mansour basically scared the crap out of the guy and got the flag back.”“He wouldn’t want the Harvard crew program to be disrespected in any way,” Downing says.It...
...down to 80.Junior lightweight Dunbar Carpenter—who began rowing as a freshman and was on the second varsity eight last year—remembers his thought process in joining the team.“I’d been pretty athletic my whole life. I ran cross-country in high school, but I doubted I could make the varsity team,” Carpenter says. “I thought I should give crew a shot. I started going to practices and that was it.”Sophomore heavyweight Matt Webb joined the team after playing varsity...
...when I ran for Vice President twice, it was very much a family enterprise. Daughter Mary was my aide de camp the first time out. Liz did all the debate prep, ran that whole operation for me. Second time around, Mary was in charge of VP operations for the campaign, and Liz did the debate prep again. So it has been an important part of my life, and I've enjoyed it. And I'm enjoying this, although I do look on it as sort of this is the last time I'll go out and do -- what, I think...
Cheney: I looked at it very seriously, back in '94, '96 time frame, and I went out on the '94 election cycle, and I set up a PAC. Dave Addington ran the political action committee for me. We raised a bunch of money, and I campaigned all over the country that year helping with the '94 effort. And then -- with the understanding that I'd sit down at the end of that period of time, which I did -- Christmas, that year, and decide whether or not I really wanted to run myself, and I concluded I did not, that...