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...around here,” Burns said. IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen said the IOP tries to select visiting fellows whose interests are topical to current issues. According to Shaheen, Whitman’s trip has been in the works for over a year, while the IOP started trying to attract Gerson after he resigned from his speechwriter post. “As soon as we heard that he was leaving the White House, we talked to him right away, we wanted him here as a fall fellow,” Shaheen said. While here, Whitman and Gerson will be leading...
...lurk among Harvard’s masses. Three of them, in fact: Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), Sigma Chi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). As invitations to rush meetings begin to flood freshmen doorboxes, FM decided to check out these brothers from different mothers and their bi-annual ritual to attract new members, dubbed “rush.” According to AEPi’s president, Jason R. Borschow ’07, AEPi delivers invitations to a special “subset of freshmen...who might be interested.” While AEPi has carved out a niche...
...golne Royal knows how to attract a crowd. When she walks into a meeting of France's Socialist Party, her mere approach is enough to cause a stampede of camera-wielding, sharp-elbowed journalists, who brush aside Royal's rivals for the party's presidential nomination. As she glides through the crowd, Royal, 53, coyly appeals for decorum. "There should be some constraints, some respect for modesty," she coos in a smoky alto. But the hint of a smile on her lips betrays her: she's loving it. And why not? So blinding is Royal's star wattage that...
Royal believes that by downplaying ideology, she can attract voters from across France's political spectrum, including former party loyalists who stayed home or drifted to the fringes in the past election. "To win in 2007, the left has to get votes everywhere, even from the [far-right] National Front," she told TIME. "There are 30% of leftist voters who vote for the National Front because they're exasperated--they're in unstable jobs or insecure neighborhoods. Rather than worrying about the center, the left had better work on this working-class constituency, which is casting protest votes for extreme...
Each year, Harvard’s undergraduate admissions officers set out to attract the most accomplished, ambitious, and driven high school students in the world. Year after year they succeed, with very few exceptions. And if you are reading this column, chances are that you are one of them, which is all well and good, but for one little hiccup—so is each and every one of your classmates...