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Freshman back Sara Sedgwick, who scored Saturday’s game-winner and was named Ivy League Player of the Week, said that Harvard can ride the momentum to another important...
While I resented the inconvenience of a bus ride home in the middle of midterms, and was appalled by the 8:30 a.m. check-in time at the district courthouse, I secretly looked forward to fulfilling my civic obligation. My enthusiasm was fueled by a pamphlet, the “Trial Juror’s Handbook,” that explained the importance of jury service. “As a juror, you will have to make difficult judgements [sic] involving all of the human passions—love, hate, greed, anger, etc.,” the Handbook promised...
Intermittently watching the rain and reading the Handbook on the bus ride back to Harvard, though, I realized I shouldn’t have been disappointed. “Through fate, you and your co-jurors have been brought together in a search for justice,” my Handbook continues mystically. And then didactically: “Justice means truth and fairness...
With that in mind, it appears that Minnesota Democrats are lining up former Vice President Walter Mondale to ride the wave of support for old-fashioned Minnesotan liberalism. Wellstone had just started pulling away in the polls, and Democrats can only hope that absence makes the votes grow fonder. When John F. Kennedy ’40 was shot in 1963, his public approval ratings skyrocketed from the nadir of his presidency. In an eerily similar chain of events, Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash within days of Missouri’s 2001 senatorial election, and his wife...
...candidate. With neither of Wellstone's two sons (Mark, 30, and David, 37) interested in filling their father's seat, Democratic officials phoned former Vice President Mondale on Friday afternoon and pleaded with him to run. Republicans fear that he is precisely the kind of party patriarch who could ride the coattails of Wellstone's legacy to victory. "Politics is all about emotions," says a Republican Senator. "Paul was beloved, and with his death he'll be even more beloved. If the Democrats pick a strong candidate, taking this seat could be tough...