Word: benjamin
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...contender, Hillary would start out with some tremendously favorable conditions. "She's an icon in New York," says Republican Gerald Benjamin, a dean at the State University of New York in New Paltz. "She transcends ordinary politics here. The analogy is Bobby Kennedy"--another out-of-stater who was elected to the Senate in 1964. New York has 1.9 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Hillary's presence in the race would whip them into a frenzy. Among the Democrats' core constituencies--Manhattan liberals, women, unions and minorities--Hillary would bury Giuliani. The mayor's relations with blacks, especially...
...much needed victory for Albright, a validation of her speak-loudly-and-carry-a-tomahawk diplomacy. Since she took office two years ago, America's first female Secretary of State has done plenty of loud talking. Her ultimatums--delivered to leaders as different as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iraq's Saddam Hussein--have become a common refrain in international diplomacy. And the cost of ignoring her is often a rain of missiles...
Still, "Campaign", the creation of two Dunster House roommates Benjamin R. Kaplan '99 and Gregory G. Lau '99, is impressive. The two seniors create a varied cast of stereotyped characters, from the Italian-American barber/womanizer, Donatello Mywife (Michael Roiff), to the not-so-innocent Washington intern, Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger); and the script and lyrics they cowrote are often very clever. On the whole, the show never loses a beat...
...reads that infamous line from Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, the story of an American naval officer, Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) Pinkerton, who abandons his Japanese wife, Cio-Cio San (Butterfly). The story, based on John Luther Longs novella, has been retold, again and again, in such productions as Broadways Miss Saigon and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Most recently, BSO takes on a fully staged concert version of Puccini's opera at Symphony Hall, with the last and final performance this coming Saturday...
PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean '02, who opened the forum, said he hoped student action wouldconvince administrators to establish a code ofconduct regulating working conditions forfactories that produce Harvard clothing...