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...cannot overstate how important it is to have someone in office who has lived abroad and can see the United States from the inside out and from the outside in,” Power, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner, informed a Kennedy School of Government auditorium audience of more than 100 Harvard students and faculty...
Times change, violence gets more explicit, yet the MPAA ratings system still operates under an anachronistic assumption: that modern parents can control what their children see. Junior can buy a ticket for a PG-13 film and stroll into an auditorium showing an R. Or a few months later, he and his friends can rent it from a video store, where kids are rarely carded. Or they go to Wal-Mart and buy the even grottier "unrated" version. (Wal-Mart won't sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel...
...Andrew Gould, the chairman and CEO of oil services firm Schlumberger Limited, addressed a packed Yenching auditorium yesterday during a panel on “The Future of Energy,” he faced some tough questions from members of the Harvard Divestment Action Group (HDAG) regarding the company’s alleged connections to the ongoing genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
With a pair of conspicuous flags—one American, the other Israeli—at the back of the small round stage and masses of plastic chairs arranged in the auditorium, Broza’s concert of Hebrew, Spanish, and English folk music threatened to swallow itself in maudlin tokenism. The Caucus gave Broza an ominously exoticizing introduction: “We want to give you a taste of what Israel is all about.” Fortunately, Broza, a disarmingly charismatic performer, proved that he and his acoustic guitar have universal appeal—although a little knowledge...
...scene was like the Iranian answer to March Madness. At Amir Kabir University of Technology in Tehran this past December, a crowd of several thousand packed the school's auditorium. On one side were hundreds of members of the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary force controlled by Iranian hard-liners, who had been bused in to cheer their most prominent alumnus, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They waved placards and roared as Ahmadinejad boasted about Iran's growing power and dared the country's enemies to challenge it. But in the back of the room, a group of 50 activists burned...