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Reacting to Harvard’s plan to bury Soldiers Field Road and build a new pedestrian bridge across the Charles, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin was quoted in The Boston Globe as making the nonsensical, inflammatory remark, “The University is treating the river like some moat that they own.” Only a politician with deep-seated animosity towards our fair University would openly deride such an ingenious plan to beautify Boston at no taxpayer expense. It should come as little surprise that Galvin sports a thick Boston accent...
...home from Roman soldiers, preserved by the dry sands of Egypt, reveal sentimental and faithful sons urging their fathers to write back after experiencing the fury and terror of battle, setting fire to other nations' houses and selling entire families to slave traders. Elliott was also right in his remark on the doubtful sexual appetites of the greatest of all ancient peoples, the Greeks, which they justified with philosophy. This is also the fascination of reading ancient literature: learning about the complexity of the human character. Eugen Scherer Vienna More Trees, Fewer Chimneys I was pleased to read "Lost...
...month Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, put out a veiled threat to those who might stray, telling a reporter that donors who support more than one candidate "come off as not really being a supporter of anyone." Now the Clinton camp is trying to distance itself from that remark. "That's just Terry being Terry," says a figure associated with the campaign...
...Otto Frank sense personal danger? Engel suspects the latter, referring to a theory first raised in Carol Ann Lee's 2003 book, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, which reported that a member of a Dutch pro-Nazi party was blackmailing Frank. After Otto was heard making a remark showing skepticism of prompt German victory, on April 18 the blackmailer requested a payoff. Twelve days later Frank wrote Straus...
...course of denying that you had used it before? Even if the denial is dishonest, it seems more like an apology than a repeat of the original crime. And is it really a gaffe if the alleged victim feels no pain? Rice complained about Boxer's passing remark only after the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh had made an issue of it. And neither she nor any of the Fox News feminists took offense, or even noted, when Laura Bush said in December in PEOPLE that Rice wouldn't run for President "probably because she is single...