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...committee will be represented at the meeting by its chair, Tweed Roosevelt '64; its secretary, H. A. Crosby Forbes '50; architectural historian Douglas Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston; two other committee members and an undergraduate...
...case provides a classic presidential strategy memo for students to use as a model: a 1947 memo to President Harry S Truman, written by former Roosevelt Administration aide James H. Rowe Jr '31. Rowe's memo dealt specifically with key "third-party" insurgences of that time...
...through more than one embarrassment. Early last week, after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the President wanted to punch Safire in the nose. At his press conference on Thursday, Clinton compared his wife with Eleanor Roosevelt, another activist First Lady who came under fire. "For many of the same reasons," he added, "from many of the same sources...
...metaphysics of weather: it is not that weather has necessarily grown more apocalyptic. The famous "Winter of the Blue Snow" of 1886-87 turned rivers of the American West into glaciers that when they thawed, carried along inundations of dead cattle. Theodore Roosevelt was virtually ruined as a rancher by the weather that destroyed 65% of his herd. In the annus mirabilis of 1811, the Mississippi River flowed northward briefly because of the New Madrid earthquake...
...recent cry to "Save the Union" just doesn't have the same ring as it did in 1861. This new, dignified civil war has arisen at the outcry of a handful of alumni, led by Tweed Roosevelt '64, over the proposed renovations to the Great Hall of the Freshman Union. Though their concern is well-intentioned, the alumni's ominous prediction of architectural destruction is both hyperbolic and misguided...