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Hershberg's work tells the full story of how the chemistry professor who served as president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953 was a key advisor in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to approve a crash effort to build the atom bomb...
...could well be that the only thing at Harvard older than the boxing club is its coach, Tommy Rawson. The club was founded more than a century ago and can boast having schooled Teddy Roosevelt '04 in the sweet science. Rawson, born in 1908, can boast of many more interesting things...
...First Family gets to put its personal imprimatur on the decor of the White House. It is also the right of every self-respecting armchair decorator to criticize the First Family's taste. The Lincolns were disparaged as spendthrifts. Rutherford Hayes' refurbishings were deemed "French-y and pretentious." Teddy Roosevelt smeared the Green Room with a polar-bear pelt, and purists reached for the smelling salts when Harry Truman built a balcony over the South Portico. Even decor queen Jackie Kennedy was sharply rebuked by the President himself when an all-too-authentic antique chair collapsed under...
...acceptable, pure and simple," says Nancy Brown, 40. "It is psychologically damaging to force somebody to choose one identity when physiologically and biologically they are more than one." Nancy, who is white, thinks the census form should include a "Multiracial" box for her two daughters; her black husband Roosevelt, 44, argues that there should be no race box at all. Both agree that people should be able to celebrate all parts of their heritage without conflict. "It's like an equation," says Nancy, who is president of an interracial family support group. "Interracial marriage that works equals multiracial children...
...legal argument regarding federal powers was resolved long ago. Programs like Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society are not explicitly permitted anywhere in the Constitution, but the broader goals of "promoting the general welfare" imply their right to exist. Organizations like the National Rifle Association are fighting on the side of a battle that was lost in antebellum America...