Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965), American statesman and diplomat, was twice Democratic candidate for president.Adlai Stevenson was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 5, 1900, of a family prominent...
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Following protests from students, former presidential adviser Karl Rove has withdrawn as this year's commencement speaker at a prestigious prep school, the school's headmaster said Monday.The choic...
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Some students at Choate Rosemary Hall, the prestigious prep school attended by John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, are protesting the choice of former presidential adviser Karl Rove as this year's...
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On my way to the Barack Obama event last night, my cab driver, Roger Ward, spoke to an issue addressed in yesterday's New York Times: There is something undemocratic in depriving people of their ca...
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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2007. There are 82 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 10, 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.On this...
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Today is Sunday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2007. There are 57 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 4, 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began as militants stormed the U.S. embassy ...
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After 19 books and thousands of articles and other writings spanning 70-plus years, the question is how many undiscovered nuggets of insight researchers may yet find in the private papers of Arthur...
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When Bush's Brain speaks, people listen. So naturally, they listened when kingmaker Karl Rove criticized Barack Obama after New Hampshire voters made Hillary Clinton prom queen.Oddly, Rove's recent...
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The Republican presidential race is so unsettled that some party officials are openly talking of a scenario that seemed almost unthinkable until now: the first contested GOP convention in 60 years....
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There is an unspoken but long-understood historical tradition among both the Republican and Democratic parties about whom they decide to send as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. With the ...
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A little more than a week into Michael Bloomberg’s pseudo-campaign for president, the inevitable backlash has begun. In accordance with the conventions of counterintuition, the on-second-thou...
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Karl Rove drops prep school speech
