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...Excusing the gag of supposed bipartisanship, what makes this inauguration so “historic?? for petition-signers has nothing to do with what one might guess. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama being the first black man elected President of the United States. His blackness is inspiring, but his meteoric rise to power has been an experience fairly different from that of a typical African-American leader. As an icon of African-American progress, Obama’s story is anomalous—he had a white mother and was raised by his white grandparents...
...play, Vermont 46, Harvard 29—the scoreboard did not lie. The Crimson was down, and down big.But the squad was not out. Using a 24-3 run over the next seven minutes of play, Harvard stormed back to take a 53-49 lead.It would have been historic??if there weren’t 12 more minutes of basketball to be played.Despite its best efforts, the Crimson (4-8) came up short in its comeback bid against America East rival Vermont (3-6) in a 73-68 loss yesterday at Lavietes Pavilion, its fourth straight defeat.Had Harvard...
...location at the edge of Harvard Yard was itself historic??more than three and a half centuries ago, Harvard built the brick Indian College on the other side of the Yard, at present-day Matthews Hall, to aid in “the education of English and Indian youth...
...country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill and would be dishonorable to abandon.” Difficult is an understatement. As of Friday, 1,372 American soldiers have died and at least 10,502 have been wounded. Meanwhile, this coming Sunday, Iraqis are poised to hold an historic??if uncertain—election to pick a 275-member National Assembly. This will likely be the final chance for the United States to establish a legitimate Iraqi government in a country that has become increasingly chaotic and violent during the last several months of occupation...
...details might be obvious, but I’ve passed these neighborhoods for years without noticing the smattering of Victorian houses. One block of row homes looks much like the next. Here in Tacony, however, the details matter because this neighborhood is trying to reclaim its “historic?? past-trying to clutch onto its former industrial grandeur. And this legacy remains at the center of Lou’s and others’ plans to fix Tacony...