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...what makes the Democratic Party great. Tomasky’s article claims to be about the “virtue of standing for something.” But if Democrats are going to stand for something, let’s stand for a plan, not a frame.Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Harvard (5-2) lost to only Yale and Tufts, who will join Harvard at Nationals after finishing at 6-1. Yale won a tie-breaker over Tufts to take first place. Johnson, senior Vincent Porter and sophomore Kyle Kovacs skippered each of the three boats, while junior Emily Simon, senior Ruth Schlitz and sophomore Elyse Dolbec served as their respective crews. “We were fortunate that all three boats were really strong—it was important this weekend and it’ll be important in Charleston,” Johnson said. “We think...
...machine," says Salvatore Sarno, the businessman who mounted Shosholoza's challenge. "It's a country where different races, different cultures can work together, challenging the top countries in the world." After the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Ainslie took a job as a high school teacher in the navy village of Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest...
With Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution (Ecco; 475 pages), the indispensable Simon Schama (Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution) has taken a much trickier path. By choosing to tell the story of the thousands of escaped slaves who fought beside the British in the hope of securing their freedom, he effectively turns the American Revolution upside down. In Schama's book, it's the Crown that holds out the promise of liberty, the patriots who would take it away. As war approached, the British promised emancipation to any runaways who would join forces with...
...SIMON N. CHIN...