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Schutt came to Harvard from the Taft School in the fall of 1993. Schutt then left Harvard in the summer of 1995 to enroll into the Berklee College of Music in Boston...
...given it plenty. As he sat there on the red sofa, Clinton warmed to the subject. He would be the youngest ex-President since Teddy Roosevelt, and that, he noted, was a cautionary tale. Roosevelt had plenty of time to harass his successor, because he thought William Taft had betrayed his legacy...
Fact: Every U.S. president since Taft including President Clinton and soon to be President Gore have stayed at this veritable Boston-as-Boston-can-be institution...
...Angeles sees nearly twice as many twisters as Oklahoma City, traditionally regarded as Tornado Central! Once, 100 million mice descended on Taft, Calif. (pop. 5,000)! In 1995 L.A. became "the nation's capital of racial (539 crimes) and sexual orientation (338 crimes) violence"! And the recent rout of fires, riots and earthquakes should, by statistical rights, only increase. Furiously researched and slashingly argued, this book is a 30-bell alarm by L.A. obsessive Davis (City of Quartz), who contends that most of the "acts of God" that have wrought such destruction in that city are, in fact, the results...
...actually grew crops. A few months later he was in Selma, Calif., the "raisin capital of the world." What a coincidence! "I have probably consumed," the President told a group of schoolkids, "more raisins than any President who ever held this office." He was forgetting, perhaps, William Howard Taft, who ate more of everything than anybody else...