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...times. Sometimes, you see issues and situations in such a totally different light from your first position that you wonder why you ever thought otherwise before. That happened to me over the course of this year with the Barker Center, Harvard's new humanities building, where the scholars of Ralph Ellison, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Dostoevski, and Ralph Waldo Emerson now reside...
...Hollis roommate of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, knew the importance of change and the need to let go when he said that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." I did want so much to be true to my first opinion about tradition and the familiar, but the light and open spaces of the Barker Center have made me happily inconsistent. After all, there is a tradition of the new, even here at Harvard...
...days of the Wild West, when shorthanded sheriffs had to enlist free-lance help in tracking down stagecoach robbers and cattle rustlers. Bounty hunters have been celebrated in popular culture--The Hunter, a Steve McQueen movie was inspired by the story of legendary bounty hunter Ralph Thorson, and Midnight Run presented Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter. "It harks back to the endless Western frontier, where no law existed and bounty hunters crossed state lines in pursuit of justice," says Robert McCrie, a professor at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice...
ATLANTA: The post-Ralph Reed Christian Coalition returns to its roots today at the organization's annual convention. The weekend meeting will be held in Atlanta, far from Reed's Washington stomping grounds, as new leaders Don Hodel and Randy Tate look to re-energize a group that has hit a wall in its drive to expand its influence over American politics. "Movements of this kind rise or fall on whether the leadership can continue to have active folks down at the worker bee level," TIME's Laurence Barrett says. And, he adds, in the last eight months other factions...
...Hodel, the newly-anointed president of the Christian Coalition, makes his first major public address Tuesday, at the National Press Club in Washington. Coalition-watchers will look for clues about life in the post-Ralph Reed era. Our bet: Hodel comes across as reasonable and mainstream, rendering the Coalition more palatable to GOP moderates...