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...punched and beat chimps with hammers to make them obedient. Nonsense, says Sid Yost, owner of Amazing Animal Actors, which rents out chimps for TV productions. His chimps, he says, are "affection trained" and "live like at the Ritz-Carlton." And they probably look great in tuxedos. --By Margot Roosevelt...
...served as an economic advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt and worked with every subsequent president through Bill Clinton...
This brings us to another set of words which, re-read for our time, makes a frightful amount of sense: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, is famous for saying that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” However trite this used to seem, lately it has come to sound urgently appropriate. Indeed, we should all be very, very afraid of fear. Lately, I’m terrified...
...book A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was hailed by the New York Times as a “definitive study” on human rights...
Remember the beauty and the wisdom that have emerged from these ivy walls. Adams, DuBois, Emerson, Kennedy, James, Roosevelt and other shapers of what we have become made this place their home and left a legacy that deserves our honor, respect and humble emulation...