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...time since then I have lived up to the chance Harvard gave me,” Kennedy said after he received a doctorate of laws from University President Drew G. Faust.Any fears the senator may have had were likely assuaged yesterday by the words of praise from the ceremony??s speakers and multiple standing ovations he received from the packed theatre.“He’s one of a kind,” Senator John F. Kerry, who has been Kennedy’s colleague for 24 years, said in a brief interview after the ceremony...
...their research relating to the fertility cycle of lap dancers, the moral consideration of plants, and the spontaneous knotting of string. Last night in Sanders Theatre, the unusual met with the academic at the “Eighteenth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.” The ceremony??hosted by the scientific humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”—bestowed awards in 10 different categories of original research, from nutrition to archaeology. In past years, researchers have been awarded Ig Nobels for the iconic pink yard flamingo and for calculating...
...world as we want is not as important as contributing to society and doing something greater than our individual selves,” Sears said. A professor at the Divinity School, Gomes—who was not available for comment yesterday because he was in New York for the ceremony??has worked in Memorial Church since 1970 and has written several books on applying biblical teachings to our daily lives. “He has made religion a part of a Harvard education,” said Justin P. Schoolmaster, a senior administrator at Memorial Church...
...between deep, existential dissatisfaction and a more than passing affinity for spectacle and self-indulgence, Coppola’s Marie drifts as aimlessly through the film as she does through her hermetically sealed world of gossip and isolation.Early in the film, after a farcical morning “dressing ceremony?? involving no less that 14 courtiers, an incensed Marie proclaims, “This is ridiculous!” to which her stern housemistress replies, “This, Madame, is Versaille.” And in the end, the film really is a whole lot like...
Broadcast journalist and writer Jim C. Lehrer will deliver the ceremony??s keynote address and receive an honorary degree from the University. Lehrer currently anchors “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS and covered the Senate Watergate hearings with colleague Robert MacNeil—a collaboration that earned the duo an Emmy Award...