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...Though she left government in 1981 and spent part of that decade working for her husband's company, Harman returned to politics in 1991 to run for California's 36th District seat. Buoyed by a sizable war chest, she bested a bevy of candidates in a heated Democratic primary and captured the general election...
...fending off challenges to win re-election in 1994 and 1996, Harman declined to run for another Congressional term in 1998, instead launching a bid to become governor of California. She lost the Democratic primary to Gray Davis, and taught at UCLA before winning election to her old Congressional seat...
...theory put to the test in the sometimes insular, often elaborate, yet always enthralling web of sport in America.Two years ago, I forsook the rural pleasantries of my sleepy town in northeast Scotland to embark on a grand journey to Harvard. Shuffling restlessly in my economy class seat thousands of feet above the Atlantic Ocean, I could barely contain my excitement—here I was, preparing to study and compete in the country that had dominated athleticism in the 20th century: the country of a defiant Jesse Owens, running in the face of Nazi Aryanization; the country where Cassius...
...generation of South African filmmakers determined to take back the country's stories and invest them with a spirit that goes deeper than skin. He produced 2005's Tsotsi, a film about a township hoodlum who steals a car - and the rich black couple's baby in its back seat - which shattered once and for all the naive but, among outsiders, popular notion that all South Africa's stories can be framed in terms of black and white. Another is director Michael Raeburn, who has just released Triomf, a bleak examination of a poor Johannesburg family - who happen...
Martha, the hired help is here! The hired—no? Undergraduates, you say? Well, then. Come in, come in! Make yourself comfortable. Admire our walnut paneling, our sumptuous rugs, our impressive portrait collection of pasty, unidentifiable friends of the College. Take a seat in one of our plush armchairs. A waiter will be by with champagne momentarily...