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...study is released showing that despite high inflation and rising unemployment, the Harvard Business School class of 1974 has had little difficulty in finding high paying jobs. 4 - Seven thousand protesters march down Broadway in South Boston and public school attendance drops by over 50 percent on the first day of mandatory busing for black students. 20 - Six Harvard University police officers are assaulted outside Harvard Stadium following disturbances during the Harvard-Cornell football game. Harvard won the game, 39-26. 28 - Harvard University Dining Services begins to check student IDs in dining halls...
...that McAuliffe runs Clinton's pro shop. He makes sure that Jews are invited to state dinners for Israeli visitors and that Irish Americans are invited to Clinton's St. Patrick's Day fete. He used to send out penny Valentines every February until the number reached several thousand...
...hero. "A historic victory," said Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, "which we hope marks the beginning of a new era of stability." As costly as the war was to Israel, it was much more painful to the Lebanese. Since the Security Zone was created in 1985, more than a thousand Lebanese have died in the bloodshed...
...Look, Lebanon is a tragedy. We have more than a thousand families who buried their sons there. So it became clear that somewhere it lost its sense. [Hizballah] also suffered a lot of blows, but somehow it could not end but by a political step of leadership. To fight against terrorism is like fighting mosquitoes. You can chase them one by one, but it's not very cost effective. The more profound approach is to drain the swamp. So we are draining the swamp...
Historians in a rush may be guilty of both the journalist's errors and the utopian's projections. I have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent...