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...Kennedy School] has an enormous diversity of course offerings, a very large and sterling faculty, and an equally impressive student body...there are a number of weaknesses that I am keeping in mind,” said Loucky, who has also been accepted to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...
...Clay, Polk’s fellow abolitionist James Birney accounted for the narrow difference in many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that Taft and Roosevelt combined had won far more votes for a more conservative agenda...
...made up of a Chief Justice and five associates. Washington signed it on Sept. 24, 1789, and within hours he nominated six men to fill the posts. Congress responded with a haste that is unimaginable today: five nominees - John Jay (the first Chief Justice), John Rutledge, William Cushing, James Wilson and John Blair - were seated in just two days. The sixth, Robert Harrison, declined to serve, but his replacement, James Iredell, sailed through confirmation the following year. The court convened for the first time in February 1790, though the Justices wouldn't decide their first case for another two years...
Also contributing for the men’s side were sophomores John Dingus and Darcy Wilson, who crossed the line first in the 400m and 800m events, respectively. Dingus notched a time of 48.23 in his event, while Wilson finished in 1:53.41—both efforts that separated the winners from their closest competition by more than a second. Other first-place finishers for the Crimson were co-captain Justin Grinstead, and freshmen Fedor Garin and Kenneth Wang Kan who competed in the 400m hurtles, pole vault, and long jump, respectively...
Back then, times were tougher. He hadn’t yet received tutor housing, and Mariana needed daycare. His budget was strained to the breaking point and he found himself unable to pay for his daughter’s health insurance. In desperation, he turned to Wilson, who helped him foot the bill. “Find me another instance of a professor doing that for a student,” Sebastián says. “These people are really out to help...