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- What That Turkey Is All About November 20, 2018National lore has it that the first Thanksgiving was in 1621, when Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared a harvest feast. Several American presidents since then had called for days of thanks, but it was President Abraham Lincoln who made Thanksgiving a national holiday, in 1863, during the height of the Civil War. No […]
- COM Dean Weighs In on What The Front Runner Got Right—and What It Didn’t November 20, 2018The Front Runner, one of the most anticipated movies of the fall season, opens nationwide this week—and one of the leading characters in the true story of the short-lived 1988 presidential campaign of Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.) and the sex scandal that torpedoed his political ambitions is Thomas Fiedler, dean of the College of Communication. […]
- New International Students on Celebrating Their First Thanksgiving November 20, 2018While many countries have their own version of Thanksgiving, America has turned the fourth Thursday of November into something uniquely its own. The holiday’s origins go back to 1621, when the English settlers known as the Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest in Plymouth, Mass., with the Native Americans who helped them survive that first […]
- Tips for Surviving This Week’s Arctic Blast November 19, 2018The calendar may say mid-November, but it will feel a lot more like February on Thanksgiving as an Arctic front descends on the Boston area. Temperatures are expected to dip to 15 degrees Wednesday night. By Thursday morning, with the wind chill, it’s going to feel like five below zero, with temperatures remaining in the […]
- Old Drug, New Tricks November 19, 2018The inspiration stemmed from observations made during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic that swept through West Africa, infecting more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone alone. The outbreak attracted the attention of virologists from around the world, and several of them, including Robert Davey, noticed something intriguing: patients […]
