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...department of San Francisco’s School of the Arts High School, has had concerns about the lack of an Asian American presence on stage. In the fall of his freshman and sophomore years, Wong auditioned through Common Casting, a selection process implemented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), which offers every production taking place that semester an opportunity to choose its own cast. In these two instances, Wong noticed that the demographic of the students who audition are not as diverse as the entire Harvard undergraduate population.Thus Wong hopes that the AAA Players will be able...
...angry. I am, in fact, frustrated that we've civilized ourselves out of really satisfying scapegoat rituals: The ancients would have staged a mass immolation of the AIG casino pigs in their private jets or crucified Bernie Madoff on the 18th hole at the Palm Beach Country Club, preceded by a public show trial with Jon Stewart as chief magistrate. You probably need an over-the-top catharsis or two like that to get the popular rage under control. As it is, guilt and anger are being splashed about chaotically and inefficiently--and people like Barack Obama, who had nothing...
...John Moody became the first financial analyst to assign letter grades to railroad bonds, giving investors an easier way to evaluate the rail companies' debt. It was the beginning of one of the most powerful forces in modern capitalism. Today a small club of bond-rating agencies, led by Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, wields enormous power, sending investors scrambling simply by changing the ratings that the firms assign to everything from Ireland's sovereign debt to General Electric's IOUs. They are pilloried for having wildly overestimated the quality of mortgage-related securities...
Jeffery Kwong is president emeritus of the Harvard Republican Club and president emeritus of the Harvard Right to Life...
...conscious” and relying on the same good old Rush Limbaugh tactics and his radio advice is akin to sitting on the porch waiting for the domestic car industry to resurrect itself. Don’t hold your breath; it isn’t happening. The Harvard Republican Club has been aware of shifts in public mood for quite some time, eagerly reaching out and reshaping our tactics without yielding on core principles and beliefs. We are not apologizing or being “self-conscious” about our views; we are being better communicators of our ideas...