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...this year’s Springfest—instead of just being like my primary school spring fair—will likely also bear some uncanny resemblance to an office picnic (without the beer). The April 27 event is supposed to be the council’s banner event. But this year, new University President Lawrence H. Summers wants to co-sponsor the event and open it to the entire Harvard community—making it an event for Harvard students, but also for faculty, staff, and their families...
...pageant took place beneath a rainbow-colored “Miss Harvard” banner decorated with “VANITAS” seals. After introducing themselves in a “First Impressions” segment, contestants strutted their stuff in the beachwear portion and faced off in a talent show. The three finalists also endured short interviews...
...daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment for her daughter's killers; for that, she was detained for "refusing to accept ideological education," according to the warrant. She was arrested again for unfurling a banner in Tiananmen Square denouncing county officials. In the months that followed, she collected signatures and fingerprints from a thousand villagers demanding the police chief's impeachment. "People kept asking me to represent them," she says while thumbing the petition in her sparsely furnished living room, decorated with a poster...
...Yorker Levi Browde, a 29-year-old software engineer and Falun Gong practitioner, struck first. "I wanted people in China to see that Falun Gong is embraced around the world," he says. So he and a friend took a taxi to Tiananmen Square on Feb. 11, unfurled a banner reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD and in seconds were carted away by police. Three days later, more than 40 foreign demonstrators raced through the square as police chased them past astonished Chinese tourists who were spending the weeklong holiday in the capital. The foreigners had come, said the state-run Xinhua...
This growing invasiveness is not confined to the restroom. With the advent of broadband Internet access, banner website ads have evolved into full audio, moving picture “commercials” that engulf your computer screen, if only for several seconds. I thought that part of the Internet’s appeal was the websurfer’s ability to bypass things like commercial interruptions. Of course, these new digital “advances” are in addition to those incessant pop-up ads and “spam” e-mails we’ve already...