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Sarah C. Haskins '01 and her blocking group of 16 had a different kind of ritual in mind. The ceremony, which Haskins said was passed down through the two previous randomized classed, involves reciting poetry and burning voodoo dolls on Weeks Bridge at the stroke of midnight...
...ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency. The very next year the movies gave us Dave. That was the one in which Kevin Kline is an amiable presidential look-alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while (hmmm...) fooling around in a Washington hotel with (uh oh!) a White House aide. Two years later, in The American President, Michael Douglas is a widower, which means his bumpy courtship of lobbyist Annette Bening is within the rules. All the same, by letting us follow...
ARTERY AID A study finds that in patients with hardening of the arteries, aspirin improves the condition of the artery lining--one reason why the old standby may help prevent stroke and heart disease...
...plan had worked--and it came fearfully close--Nikita Khrushchev, the bellicose Premier of the Soviet Union, would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the Cold War. Once again, a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
Sources: Journal of the American Medical Association (1, 2); Stroke...