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Last Monday, the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team announced they had hired Wally Backman to be their new manager. Backman, a former major league player, had enjoyed a very successful run as a minor league manager, winning over 400 games and twice being named the Minor League Manager of the Year.
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On November 3rd, roughly 100 protestors gathered in Copley Square for the "Rally and Vigil for Democracy," intended, as a Harvard undergrad told The Crimson, to "protest the results of the election." Wondering about the purpose of "protesting" a national exercise of democracy (Were they protesting the voters themselves? And, if so, how many Bush voters did they think they'd find in downtown Boston?), I visited the website of the rally's sponsor, No Stolen Elections! Apparently the (then) yet-to-be-counted provisional ballots in Ohio, the touch-screen voting in Florida, and "reports of voter disenfranchisement across the country" all strongly support the fact that Bush "stole" the election.
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I think I speak for the major-ity of blue voters when I say that by a week after the elections, most of us had settled down. We're not happy, no. But we've let up on the weeping. For now. Maybe because we can tell ourselves that nothing has changed, that we've just stagnated in a very, very unfortunate status quo.
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So you're seriously depressed about the election. You're looking for the American fix: a good funny movie...or some smack. And since you're a member of the Harvard student body, rarely known for its geographical adventurousness, either way that means walking to Harvard Square.
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The play was incredibly routine; the moment anything but. Edgar Renteria grounded to Keith Foulke; Foulke passed the ball neatly to Doug Mientkiewicz. Nothing challenging. Nothing special. But in that soft toss my entire life changed. I can't even count the number of times I have seen or turned that play, the simplest of in-field guaranteed outs, the one-threes where the pitcher is actually on the ball, backing himself up, playing a little D.
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The curse has been broken. After 86 years... someone is finally going to get a "C" in a class. Heck, it's probably going to be me, since I keep forgetting to pick up new reading packets from the distribution center and by the time I get there, they're all out.
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1. This season's The West Wing picks up after a Palestinian terrorist bombing kills two American congressmen and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. While the nation calls for military reprisals, the President retaliates with calligraphied invitations to a Camp David peace conference.
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Having now done "flyout week," I see why it's not called "vacation week." I spent half the week in one city, half of it in another, and all of it tired and confused. But I can't complain because I got to play grown-up for a week (even if I did play the part poorly).
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For Napoleon, the final battle was Waterloo. For Lt. General Cornwallis, defeat came at Yorktown. For John Kerry, the 2004 presidential campaign ended in Ohio and Florida. In accordance with most predictions, both Senator Kerry and President Bush secured the states that they had long expected to win.
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Celebrating its 90th anniversary, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau hosted a panel discussion entitled "Domestic Violence, Poverty and the Legal System," on Saturday, October 23. Filling the Ames Courtroom, the event brought past and present Bureau members together on the 90th anniversary of the Bureau's incorporation, and was held as part of the Law School's fall alumni reunion weekend.
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The Human Rights Program (HRP) at Harvard Law School celebrated its 20th anniversary this past weekend, marking twenty years of institutionalized support for the study and engagement of human rights legal work. According to Henry Steiner, director and founder of HRP, interest in such a program began to grow in the 1980s as human rights rhetoric seeped into the consciousness of academic culture, causing students to demand more support from the school.