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...source of inspiration for Sarokhan, probably didn’t have a daybook, but he did have a list of maxims to live by. Like Sarokhan, Washington scrawled his list at age 16. Sarokhan says this is a coincidence—he wrote his list before learning about Washington??s. The two lists have some parallels. While Washington??s list, which was borrowed from a collection of maxims that originated in late sixteenth-century France, includes the instruction to “Use no Reproachfull Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile...
...student of VH1 biographical docudramas could have predicted, the comeback failed; Veterans’ Day’s star had already fallen. It was too late to refocus attention on the original purpose of Veterans’ Day. Like Columbus Day or Washington??s Birthday—two of the other holidays the Uniform Holidays Bill shifted to Mondays—Veterans’ Day had become disassociated from its namesake, and had irrevocably become associated instead with brief vacations and department store sales. This is why my hometown’s parade feels insufficient...
...Harvard’s losses—Washington??came against NCAA-qualifying teams. All but the loss to UConn and Washington were by a single goal. The Crimson needed just slightly better results against the difficult schedule, but couldn’t pull...
Leading up to today’s midterm elections, corporate reform, the politico’s favorite summer topic, surprisingly vanished from the legislative agenda. The reason for its absence, it seems, is that the issue was checked off Washington??s to do list before the job was really done. While media hype has always functioned as an impetus for change, once the issue falls from front-page news, so—sadly—does its legislative support. Our corporate accounting problems will not simply go away because President Bush took a brief moment to scold business...
Nakayama quoted George Washington??s Farewell Address, which warns against “permanent antipathies or passionate attachments to any one country,” as he argued that the U.S. should not favor Israel in the current conflict...