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1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1938 The Thornton Wilder play ''Our Town'' opened on Broadway.
If my Duke students are representative, then the U.S. is about to see a generation that is practical, anti-ideological, modest and centrist (maybe to a fault)…
While the G.O.P. was once thought of as the practical, businesslike party, now most of my students see the Republicans as the impractical, ideological party — on social and science issues as well as foreign and domestic policy.
David Brooks, talking about his impression of college student based on teaching a political science class at Duke, in his column today in the New York Times. www.nyt.com
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