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...religion and Protestant values. No matter how much some conservatives may wish it, that era is over. William F. Buckley, still shamelessly venerated by the conservative establishment, opposed meritocratic admissions for racial and ethnic minorities at Yale in 1967 when he ran a guerilla campaign to obtain a seat on the Yale Corporation (he lost). Being a minority, I, like many others, am indebted to the liberal revolution...
...since 1985. The talent was there, as was the speed, but the Crimson would be giving up as much as 60 pounds to its heavyweight opponents. “Every day, we were getting better,” Brian Aldrich says. “We had a novice [three-seat Chip Schellhorn ’07] in there who had never raced in a smaller boat than an eight before. I had to switch to port, and I was really struggling at first with that. But we got a lot of practice in.”The Crimson, lither...
...this Northern Kentucky district, stretching through 24 counties along the top of Kentucky, from the suburbs of Cincinnati all the way east to the coal fields on the West Virginia border, is its most conservative enclave, where President Bush won 63% of the vote in 2004. Davis won the seat easily two years ago over newscaster Nick Clooney (George's dad) when Lucas, the only Democrat to hold the seat since 1966, retired to honor a campaign pledge to serve just three terms...
...That may be in part because Lucas entered the race late, having been drafted in January by local Democrats concerned that this year may be the party's best chance to win back the seat. One of those who helped lead public calls for Lucas to come out of retirement was Mark Nickolas, a former Democratic campaign worker who authors the popular political blog www.bluegrassreport.org...
...Wrigley Field, when I walk up the tunnel, a veritable concrete time warp, and take my seat among hundreds—thousands—of chattering college-age kids, I’m reminded of America’s honest, ageless love affair with the game...