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Leaman had a hard time masking disappointment with losing to his old team after the game. With the Harvard band playing “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” after the final horn, Leaman said, half-jokingly, that he didn’t like “that song...
...show. Osgood runs though the half-dozen main stories, then reads the news ?for today, February 15th, twenty-oh-four.? The show revels in mild eccentricities; some of the most prominent are Osgood?s bow tie, his occasional flights of doggerel and his persistent disdain for the locution ?two thousand four...
...there with you,” he told a crowd of two thousand supporters who listened and shouted words of encouragement. “But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” The audience erupted into applause as thunder rumbled in the distance...
Lofty ideals were more affordable then. When I entered Harvard in 1965, the tuition was less than $1,800 per year—roughly 60 percent less than it is today, adjusted for inflation. Student loans were small, seldom more than a couple of thousand dollars total, and most of us paid them off pretty quickly. Starter jobs in many fields, especially public service, paid better than today (adjusted for inflation). Housing costs—even in major cities—were low enough to enable a typical Harvard grad to find a nice place to live within...
...Dean campaign will now have to go on without him. After disappointing losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, and with his campaign almost broke, Dean sacked Trippi last week as part of a staff shake-up that is meant to centralize an operation once proud of letting a thousand volunteers bloom...