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Other house administrators of repute are Peeples (mildly terrifying but ultimately harmless), Superintendent David Simms, and Enoch, a Ghanaian table-tennis champion-turned-security guard. Ronald S. Sullivan and Stephanie Robinson were recently selected to assume the duties of House Masters in June, with Rosen and Sassanfar set to step down after a six-year stint at the helm. Sullivan (who met Barack Obama on the basketball court in their HLS days), and Robinson will be the first black couple to serve as House Masters at Harvard, fulfilling Winthrop’s longstanding commitment to diversity (it was the first...
...point by becoming the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, the two didn’t get to know each other in a professional setting.“We played intramural basketball games, sometimes on the same team, sometimes on opposing ones,” Sullivan said. “Obama was really very good, and he still is.”More than a dozen years later, after having taken separate paths with their law degrees, Obama and Sullivan extended their casual friendship. The President asked Sullivan to serve as an informal adviser during...
...most sensational play came moments later when Bears guard Peter Sullivan tried driving in the lane. Freshman Max Kenyi rotated on defense and jumped in the air to meet Sullivan. He cleanly blocked the ball into the backcourt before both he and Sullivan crumbled to the floor...
...Bear Sullivan makes another long two. Perhaps the outside shot will start falling for the hosts. Harvard 39, Brown...
Long before television and the Internet, graphic battlefield photos by Mathew Brady's corps of war photographers made their way into homes through photo-album books. (In Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 Gettysburg tableau A Harvest of Death, you can practically hear the flies buzz over the bloated corpses.) The U.S. censored war photos during World War I, a policy that continued into World War II. But in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed the ban, believing Americans, unaware of the war's high cost, were becoming complacent. Vietnam, a generation later, was the media's war. Television broadcasts and searing photographs...