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After two competitive rounds of voting—and a technological blip during the first round—the results of the senior Class Marshal elections were announced yesterday afternoon. Among the eight elected marshals were First Marshal Lumumba B. Seegars ’09 and Second Marshal Philip L. Perez ’09. As Marshals for the Class of 2009, Seegars, Perez, and six of their peers will be responsible for planning Class Day and Senior Week, as well as future alumni activities such as reunions. “I am so excited and happy...
...said. “So I decided to compose a villanelle. Just repeat repeat repeat.” In the second half-hour, Heaney read several yet to be published poems, inspired by his translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. He closed the afternoon with a reading of ‘Postscript,’ from his volume ‘The Spirit Level,’ published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues to influence his poetry as both a setting and a mental state...
...page book.“It will be 45 minutes and we will show 81 slides,” Jeanne-Claude said, by way of prefacing a speech, at the beginning of an event held last Wednesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. The afternoon and evening were devoted to celebrating the artists and their work, and, more specifically, their skill in negotiating complex social and legal issues in order to pursue their enormous installation projects. Their talk lasted 45 minutes, and there were 81 slides.Christo and Jeanne-Claude were in town to receive the Great Negotiators...
...Monday afternoon, Wall Street basically stopped trading to watch TV - mainly CNBC - to see how the House of Representatives would vote on the $700 billion bailout package. When it first started looking like the bill would fail, the Dow plummeted 389 points, or 3.6%, in just seven minutes. If it had continued at that pace for much longer, this would have been perhaps the most harrowing day in stock market history. It didn't, but things were still really, really bad. The Dow ended the day down 778 points, or 7%, and the S&P 500 - a better measure...
...your calculators out—it took just five minutes for 10 people to polish off over 40 pounds of sautéed spinach Saturday afternoon at b.good’s fifth annual Garlicky Green Eating Championship...