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...story on Obama's "Bitter" comments, Tumulty refers to "downscale voters." Webster's defines downscale as "located or moving toward ... the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale." It would be interesting to know, in Tumulty's neo-élitist judgment, what constitutes a downscale voter. Frank Brodersen, Fredericksburg...
...story on Obama's "Bitter" comments, Tumulty refers to "downscale voters." Webster's defines downscale as "located or moving toward ... the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale." It would be interesting to know, in Tumulty's neo-litist judgment, what constitutes a downscale voter. Frank Brodersen, FREDERICKSBURG...
...noted 19th century jurist Timothy Walker, Class of 1826, devoted his 1851 Phi Beta Kappa speech to mocking abolitionists. And after Daniel Webster, a the legendary Massachusetts senator, gave a speech endorsing the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, Harvard President Jared Sparks, Class of 1815, and several professors signed a letter to the editor of the Boston Courier to show their support, according to the book “Veritas,” a history of Harvard by Andrew B. Schlesinger...
...owned station, which lies a short walk away from Harvard’s athletic fields, has been in its current location since 1948. “Harvard has expressed some interest in our property, but we have no deal with the university,” WBZ spokeswoman Ro Dooley Webster told The Crimson yesterday. Piette told the Globe that talks have included a possible land swap during which WBZ would be relocated to other land that Harvard owns. Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) spokeswoman Jessica Shumaker said that the city is not opposed to a possible deal at this point, although...
Would artists buy this kind of shift? Jon Webster, chief executive of the London-based Music Managers Forum, is not so sure. Far from spoiling musicians, he says, "most personal advances are to keep people alive." Squeezing out an album is an unpredictable affair, and regular pay checks might strike some artists as an unwelcome reminder to hurry up. "Creators rarely want to be sitting here watching the clock," Webster says. "The creative process doesn't work like that...