Word: statesmen
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...career in medicine planned—I think he’d make a terrific coach.”For all the seniors, it was the end of a tough season, but also of a career, and the Crimson’s elder statesmen took time to reflect after the game.“We got off to a slow start, but we battled,” Stack-Babich said. “It’s been a great four years. I want to thank Coach Walsh for giving me the chance to play here...
Senior Day for the Harvard baseball team isn’t until the end of the month, but that didn’t stop the Crimson’s elder statesmen from stealing the spotlight in Saturday’s doubleheader against Cornell at O’Donnell Field.Captain Harry Douglas came through with key hits in the final inning of each game, Matt Rogers continued his recent run of scorching play with a pair of long balls, and Taylor Meehan and Tom Stack-Babich each hit walk-off homers in a thrilling sweep...
...many respects, Senator Chris Dodd is more powerful than ever on Capitol Hill these days. After enduring eight years in the political wilderness, the Connecticut Democrat is one of his ascendant party's senior statesmen, someone who endorsed Barack Obama early on in the presidential campaign and who hails from a solidly blue state. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd has played a central role in shepherding much of Obama's economic agenda, from the second half of the bank bailout to the coming overhaul of regulations governing Wall Street. With his good friend Ted Kennedy sidelined with...
...have taken this very seriously. We've looked to the Clinton impeachment to figure out what's fair. But it's time to be statesmen," said Republican Matt Murphy. "This is about a lot more than just one guy, even if these last days have been pretty consistent with the way he's been acting the past six years. This is no joke. It's especially no joke to the people of Illinois." (Read "Where Are They Now: The Clinton Impeachment...
...played by a giant whose day job was doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater. The visitors represented an alliance of outer space planets and they were on a mission: to warn us earthlings to mend our warlike ways. Klaatu wanted to convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing all the Earth's mechanized powers to a halt for a few minutes. If that warning didn't take, he mentioned the possibility of burning Earth "to a crisp" in order to preserve intergalactic peace...