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After the competition, Will Shortz—the New York Times crossword puzzle editor and the man who introduced Sudoku to America??gave a short talk about his favorite crossword puzzle experiences. Flyby slowly realized, as the audience responded to Shortz with roars of laughter and knowing shouts of approval, that we were in the presence of a cruciverbalist...
...light of his vocal environmental advocacy and concerted efforts to tackle the challenges of America??s energy dependency, Chu’s speech presents a unique opportunity to engage students with the pressing issue of global climate change. As director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu positioned the search for sustainable energies at the top of the institution’s agenda. The former Stanford professor also played an instrumental role in the creation of the Energy Biosciences Institute, a research and development organization dedicated to the emergent and multidisciplinary field of energy bioscience. With...
...produced by Elizabeth J. Krane ’11 and Brittany L. Turner ’09, “Millennium Approaches” opens on April 3, 2009, followed by “Perestroika” on April 4, 2009. “Angels in America?? was originally two plays written within two years of each other in 1991 and 1992, both winning Tony Awards for Best Play in 1993 and 1994, respectively, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Over a total of six hours, the work follows the shifts, declines, and evolution of the relationships...
...President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown—fresh off his humiliating trip to Latin America??tussled with Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the priorities of immediate stimulus versus regulation, Paramount Leader Hu Jintao quietly positioned China as the champion of the entire, unrepresented developing world. Meanwhile, President Lula da Silva of Brazil—the planet’s most popular politician, with an 80% approval rating—explicitly blamed the irrationality of white, blue-eyed beasts of prey for the financial crisis...
...president has chosen America??s iconic Catholic university, Notre Dame, for his inaugural commencement rostrum. Such a move, indeed, may seem fitting for the president’s political calculus. Both Indiana and Catholics swung from George W. Bush’s column in 2004 to support him last November, and this speech will no doubt continue the president’s much-ballyhooed outreach to “faith-based” voters. From the perspective of the White House, the setting in South Bend is impeccable...