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Roosevelt was firm in his convictions, but he was also a man of puzzling contradictions. An avid conservationist who added national forests and wildlife refuges, Roosevelt’s first act after his chosen successor William Howard Taft took office was to embark on a safari to shoot lions, giraffes, and other exotic creatures. In total, Roosevelt and his entourage killed 512 animals, the majority of which were stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
...upon returning from his African sojourn, Roosevelt found that his presidential legacy was unravelling. Taft failed to maintain the pace of reform that Roosevelt had set. Indecisive—and overweight—Taft lacked the firmness to be a strong leader and dreamed only of becoming Supreme Court chief justice (a dream that would be realized...
...relatively simple path that carried Stone from her days in skates with the Wildcats to a spot behind the bench at Harvard’s helm. Coaching, in many ways, is in Stone’s blood. Her father was a fixture at the Taft School, serving as the long-time athletic director. Her oldest brother Mike, is the head baseball coach at the University of Massachusetts, her brother Jim serves as the AD at Blair Academy in New Jersey, and her sister Kelly works at the ECAC...
...best of my knowledge, he’s fine,” said Jay L. Taft, Director of Administration for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where Wilson conducts his research...
...recruiting abilities of the program extend beyond American borders to the Commonwealth. Of the four new players, Grigg and Blumberg are Canadian, while Balsekar hails from India by way of the Taft School. All received international attention after succeeding in international competition...