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...fancy flying across the nation for an anvil toss, James Heintze, the librarian at American University in Washington, has a website, american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm that lists dozens of events, as well as pretty much anything else you wanted to know about Independence Day--except barbecue recipes...
...singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment. It's a coin toss to determine which one was the first modernist pop singer...
Apparently, in order to be a bleeding-heart liberal, you have to toss aside one other old-fashioned value: thought. As the sit-in approached its third week, somewhere in Harvard Yard a first-year student handed me a neon-orange leaflet emblazoned with “Living Wage Now!” I asked him why he supported the living wage. He responded with a pre-programmed response that he’d practically memorized from a handout. I asked him about the socioeconomic principles behind the movement. He stammered. I pressed for his opinion. He told...
...deepest secret—its inner core of fiscal conservatism. Yes, students at the college are liberal, but only socially. But being liberal is more than supporting women’s equality or gay rights. To be truly liberal and progressive, you’d better be willing to toss aside more than just your parents’ stodgy views on race in America. You’ve got to toss aside corporate profits, individual wealth and, yes, rational minimum wages in the interests of the greater good of the American people. But Harvard students are reluctant to pay higher...
Huskies first baseman Taylor Johnson surprised the Crimson with a perfect bunt in the next at-bat. Crockett fielded the slow roller and threw to first, but first base umpire Randy Harvey ruled that Crockett’s toss pulled senior Josh San Salvador off the bag, scoring the fourth and final...