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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...
...fast as you can—and we all pushed each other in the same.”Now one of two returning sophomores on the varsity eight along with Kayla Feld, Kharrazi will have to work hard once again to return to the varsity stroke seat in 2007. But on the whole, Kharrazi thinks Radcliffe’s depth this season could help the squad capture the national title that has eluded the team in recent years. “All of us racing now were varsity members last year,” Kharrazi says...
...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...
...lightweight IRA final the most thrilling in recent memory. And close enough to make 2007 a campaign for the national title even more important for those who came 0.076 seconds short a season ago. “We thought we’d won—we were one seat up, and you look over and you hear the beep and think, I think I was a little bit ahead of their seven-seat,” junior Moritz Hafner says. “But our boat was a little bit shorter. Still, it took them more than 15 minutes...
...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...