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...Democratic and Republican parties are about to lose control of the way their presidential candidates are chosen. Both had picked a select group of states that could elect nominees before Feb. 5, 2008. But Florida, which wasn't one of them, is now set to break the party-approved barrier and move its primary up to Jan. 29. South Carolina, which the parties picked to have the first Southern primary, says it will move its G.O.P. primary even earlier to keep that distinction. New Hampshire, scheduled for Jan. 22, requires its secretary of state to move its primary to stay...
...they will cut by half the number of delegates to the national convention of any state that votes before Feb. 5. Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has gone further, threatening to bar all delegates of candidates who campaign in rule-breaking states. Few believe the threats. Once chosen, the candidates control the conventions, and none will want to offend key swing states like Florida and New Hampshire. So no one can say where the rush to be first will stop. Some reform ideas are on the table, including rotating first-in-the-nation honors and grouping primaries by region...
...Harvard Early Music Society (HEMS), the Harvard Ballet Company, and the OFA Dance Program’s spring dance showcases. And Koch isn’t just choreographing dances—she’s choreographing winning dances. Her piece “fallen falling” was chosen to represent Harvard at a regional American College Dance Festival in February of 2008. HEMS will perform a piece she choreographed, “Métamorphoses,” at the Boston Early Music Festival this June and as part of an arts festival in Versailles this summer. The piece...
...always chosen my productions very carefully. By the costumes that I get to wear,” says Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, before bursting into sheepish laughter. She is in her natural habitat, the mainstage of the Loeb Drama Center, where she’s put years of dedicated work into the Harvard drama scene.Now, she is dressed in everyday clothes, with a long, tiered skirt adding a hint of drama to her appearance. But the true drama is in her face, in the mobile features that light up as she discusses her greatest passion?...
...graduate classes for most of my undergraduate education,” she says. Former Germanic languages and literatures concentrator Margareta I. Christian ’03 remembers that a lack of community among the undergraduates in the department was, for her, one of the few disadvantages of her chosen field, adding that she did get to know the graduate students.Christian is now studying German literature at Princeton University.Although small numbers may limit student interactions, Foster says that students and faculty receive both academic and personal attention. “We become sort of a big family...