Word: actualizations
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...Yearly Kos. Jerome Armstrong, the co-author of "Crashing the Gate" with Yearly Kos namesake Markos Moulitsas, is the governor's Internet consultant and unofficial blogger liaison. Clearly, the Warner campaign has great hopes for leveraging what convention-goers call "the netroots." Yet to judge by Warner's actual speech, the netroots are just another constituency, a Democratic special-interest group to be placated by a campaign promise or two. Aside from a warm-up that referenced the night's festivities, Warner delivered his time-tested stump speech to the crowd, its paeans to the need for education and national...
...that when I start a new job, that this is the thing that precedes me," Streep says with a sigh. "That I'm rigorous in doing my homework and hideously overprepared, and ..." She shrugs. "And that's fine. Better to come off as smarter and more disciplined than I actually am." She waits a beat and then adds with a delighted laugh, "Not that I'm interested in debunking the myth!" Yet everybody who's worked with her turns into a geyser of mush about how giving and life-affirming she is. So perhaps the difficult rep arises not from...
...duty, it strikes me as somewhat telling that he chose to articulate it so sternly as a “business.” Is it a good thing that Harvard is mixing business with pleasure, leisure, and lecture? And can this new corporate model of a university actually teach us to be “citizens of the world?” The tension between the University’s aim of producing global citizens and the prevalent trends of commercialization and professionalism has been a defining aspect of my education here. Readers of my column (or anybody...
...least 10 Harvard students are currently undocumented immigrants, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. Fitzsimmons acknowledges, however, that the actual number may be higher because the citizenship status of students is only verified if they apply for financial...
...past 50 years have been “lived” on Plympton Street: first as a neophyte bookseller, then as an actual one. My introduction to the shop came in 1956. The shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies...