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Since George Washington first took the presidential oath—153 years after Harvard’s inception—a total of seven Harvard graduates have captured the country’s top spot. On January 20, 2009, Harvard Law School graduate Barack H. Obama became the eighth. And while it may be unfounded and self-gratifying to view Obama solely as the product of his years in Cambridge, Harvard does have a record of success as an executive incubator. It is difficult to tell, however, to what degree the Harvard diploma opens the door to the nation?...
After a disappointing loss last Tuesday in the Beanpot final, the Crimson is back in business. The Harvard women’s hockey team cruised past Cornell on Friday at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, N.Y., earning a 5-2 victory and clinching its second consecutive Ivy League title and eighth overall. Tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt showed no mercy on the Big Red, and played a part in all five of the team’s goals—with four goals and an assist. After a sluggish start to the game, the Crimson rallied back with four goals...
...starts with the impressive job that the National Park Service has done with the Lincoln home, at the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets. If you stay at the Hilton, or the nearby Abraham Lincoln Hotel, you'll have only a short walk to the house where Abe and Mary Lincoln raised their boys from 1844 until they left for Washington in 1861. The handsome clapboard two-story has been meticulously maintained by the Park Service, but that's only the beginning. The federal government also acquired four square blocks surrounding the Lincoln home and - after removing all post-Lincoln...
...home exudes a warm, middle-class prosperity, and in a small house across the street from the Lincolns, you can follow the steady rise of the young lawyer and family man. When Lincoln bought the place at Eighth and Jackson in 1844 - the first and only home he ever owned - he was a 35-year-old politician with a wife and a baby, and the house was a modest story-and-a-half. As he grew wealthier, Lincoln literally blew the roof off the place, extending it to a full two stories. Now there was space for big parties...
...teach at a school in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It’s an underachieving school even by the standards of where Teach for America places its members. We take students who weren’t able to pass out of eighth grade before they became too old to start high school. Some have been thrown out of two or three middle schools, and many served time in juvenile detention for a colorful range of offenses. Others simply lost a year as orphans of the storm, Katrina kids mishandled by overwhelmed officials in Houston, Atlanta, or Arkansas who fell behind...