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...being a show of muscular strength, as Krauthammer would like to believe, it weakened the U.S. After 9/11, we had the attention and cooperation of our allies and even many unfriendly regimes around the globe. Krauthammer may think alliances are for cowards and losers, but people like Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill spoke often of the need to cultivate alliances in the name of security. The fact is, we will never beat terrorism by blowing up other countries. BRANDEN FRANKEL Newport Beach, Calif...
...doesn’t approach the quality of classic campaign songs like 1949 Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O’Brien’s “Charlie and the MTA” or “Happy Days Are Here Again,” which Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson president, adopted during his first White House...
...Black, 59, may not be quite so nimble as he thought. As he set out on a book tour of Toronto and New York City last week to tout his new biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Black found himself at the center of a typhoon over alleged improprieties in his business affairs. On Wednesday, Black resigned as CEO of Hollinger International, his Chicago-based public company, after shareholders revolted against him, and regulators in the U.S. and Canada opened probes. Late Friday night Hollinger's Canadian parent company, which Black controls, announced that its four-member audit committee had resigned...
...spectacular fall for Black, who built up a global empire from two small Quebec newspapers he acquired while still a student. Now the vultures are circling to pick over his holdings, with potential bidders ranging from private equity firms to rival newspaper giants like Gannett. In his Roosevelt biography, Black writes that the President's "considerable vanity could never allow that he had been defeated or outsmarted." It's an insight that could well apply to Black himself...
President Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, sent the HRC a personal telegraph expressing his enthusiasm for the newly formed club, and future president Theodore Roosevelt wrote to the new board, “I am more than glad to see Harvard College Republicans keeping Harvard where she belongs.” Now, 115 years later, the HRC continues to keep Harvard where she belongs, even if The Crimson would rather not write about...