The pie fight. As intended (1927)

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Thursday July 09, 2015 · 11:13 AM PDT

2015/07/09 · 11:13

Kossacks should appreciate this: the mother of all pie fights, from 1927, featuring 3000 pies (!), can now be restored.

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One of my few diaries. Should I have bothered?

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One of my few diaries. Should I have bothered?

Yes

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PIE!

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I remember 1963.

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Friday November 22, 2013 · 4:47 PM PST

2013/11/22 · 16:47

I was five in 1963. Kennedy was a Catholic; he was from the northeast; he was young, and had a young wife and kids that were the same age as my sister and me. I don't know if my family had voted for him - but we were Catholics and he was one of us.

There are some odds ways that I feel connected to Jack Kennedy. We share the same birthday. There were the two children - and the son who died. My mother had a baby boy who died four days after his birth (1962). She had miscarried at least once, like Jackie. I didn't now that when I was little, of course. But it's his death, and the funeral, and then my mother's death and funeral less than a year later, that really seal this link.

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Sunday August 26, 2012 · 6:12 PM PDT

2012/08/26 · 18:12

Trump bailing on the Republicanfest in Tampa, supposedly because of the weather....According to WaPo:

As recently as Saturday afternoon, Trump was scheduled to collect the Sarasota Republican Party’s Statesman of the Year award and then swoop down to Tampa for a day of wall-to-wall media interviews, meetings with top donors to Mitt Romney’s campaign and then, apparently per the presidential candidate’s request, a “surprise” publicity stunt on the convention floor.

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Thursday June 21, 2012 · 8:46 PM PDT

2012/06/21 · 20:46

The UVa saga continues tonight....WaPo reporting that the board now may have the votes to reinstate President Teresa Sullivan and will meet next week on the matter. They also profile the Rector of the Board of Visitors, Helen Dragas.

Meanwhile the student-run and independently funded Daily Cavalier newspaper got the board's email exchanges by submitting a Freed of Information Act request.

Today, a colleague from UVa forwarded an email making the rounds that summarizes and interprets the emails. I am told I can distribute it at will, so I am. It's long, but an interesting read. If this story interests you, it's worth it.

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Monday February 27, 2012 · 2:46 PM PST

2012/02/27 · 14:46

Heard on All Things Considered this afternoon, a story about a new non-profit signing up "Christians" who are not registered to vote - to vote for conservative candidates who will uphold God's law. How does "United in Purpose" know who is a Christian, that such a person is unregistered, and what kind of Christian they are (so that confused people who think Jesus was a socialist and meant what he said about the poor, the hungry, the sick don't end up registered by UIP)?

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Monday February 06, 2012 · 7:00 PM PST

2012/02/06 · 19:00

This diary comes a little late to the party, but I don't think anyone else has covered this wrinkle to the entire Komen debacle....Duke University announced its honorary degree recipients just before the Pink Storm broke, and Nancy Brinker was among the announced honorees for 2012, or should I say "Ambassador" Brinker (as she was titled):

Brinker in 1982 founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure after promising her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer. Komen for the Cure has invested almost $2 billion to research, community health, advocacy and global programs that serve hundreds of thousands of women in more than 50 countries.
Brinker, herself a breast cancer survivor, was U.S. Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and U.S. Chief of Protocol from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. In 2009, President Barack Obama named Brinker a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for her work to end breast cancer.
She serves as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control and has written four books, including the New York Times best-seller "Promise Me," about Komen's growth from a promise made to her sister to the global organization of today.

I confess that I did not know that President Obama had given her the Medal of Freedom....ouch. But there's more beneath the tangerine squiggle.....

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The pie fight. As intended (1927)

I remember 1963.

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Honorary degree for Brinker?