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...Brown University historian Karl Jacoby. We also know who these attackers were, for the most part: an unlikely alliance of white settlers, Spanish-speaking landholders known as vecinos and members of an opposing tribe, the Tohono O'odham. But rather than tie these four groups' tales together into a standard history of what became known as the Camp Grant Massacre - one of the most brutal and sensational acts in the American Southwest of the late 19th century - Jacoby breaks them out separately, to better unpack what he calls the "palimpsest of many stories" surrounding the massacre. The goal...
...hope for a year-end rally at a time when the only precedents that seem to apply are the worst bear markets on record? "Mid-December to the end of January is known as the only free lunch on Wall Street," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's Equity Research. "This year could be different...
...rules forbade the distribution of hard alcohol at the tailgate. But, Eliot House’s cardboard cow dispensed vodka, in addition to standard boxed wine, from its udders...
...they use a John McCain [photo] looking decent and smiling?" He says the campaign also agonized over the music in the ads, paying special care not to play drum-heavy tracks that could be seen as an African tribal reference. "We were held to a totally different standard," he says...
...contemporary times, it’s truly a once-in-a-generation accomplishment for Harvard football. The generation began with a program’s changing face, the emergence of Murphy as one of the Crimson’s all-time great coaches, and a new standard of dominance in the Ivy League.And though there are a few more wins, a few more accolades, and a few more trophies, that generation will end in familiar place: right back where it began.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...