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While the other three leaders Obama turns to are all members of his Faith Advisory Council, when he contacts them it is to talk not on a policy level but a personal one. Otis Moss Jr. is a retired Baptist pastor who once served with Martin Luther King Sr. at Ebeneezer Church. His son is the new pastor - following Jeremiah Wright - at Trinity in Chicago, but Moss is the model of a proper old-school preacher and is the father figure of Obama's group. His fellow council member, Joel Hunter, is a white evangelical and pastor of a Florida...
...next year could translate into a greater workload. For instance, in Adams House, only four general cook positions are up for bid for next year, down from the current total of five. “There’s a work overload,” said Vincent A. James Sr., who noted that the bid form indicated only one chef working the Tuesday dinner shift in Adams House, which regularly sees 400 students during that meal period. “I don’t know how they expect us to do this.” According to Harvard spokesman...
...following year in Davis' life was instructive for the fledgling politician. Then just 31, Davis announced plans to challenge Earl Hilliard Sr., the first African-American elected to Congress from Alabama since Reconstruction. Davis was largely dismissed as an upstart who hadn't paid his dues by winning a lower-tier office. Despite being hailed by the Birmingham News as a "leader for the future," Davis lost. He attributed defeat to having raised barely $100,000. The next time he ran, in 2002, Davis had become adept at raising money, benefitting from donations from American Jewish groups concerned about Hilliard...
...After World War II, Crocker Sr. obtained several horses for his home in Ipswitch, Mass. and helped start the Myopia Polo Club, spawning a dynasty that would become known by many polo aficionados. Crocker Jr. played recreationally, in addition to eventually becoming a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and the director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
...residents said they felt the school committee did not give sufficient weight to Turk’s Cambridge roots. “Lifelong service to this city doesn’t mean a damn thing because they’ll screw you,” said Charles L. Stead, Sr., a former principal in the district. “Understand that is the sentiment that is going to be felt by most of the blacks in this city.” Fantini, who has served on the committee for 12 terms, said he thought Turk deserved to be superintendent...