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Visiting professor Jonathan N. Lipman ’69 spoke to a room of 30 students last night in the Lowell Junior Common Room about the striking diversity of Islam in China, as part of the ongoing Eighteenth Annual Islam Awareness Week. Organized by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), the week consists of five days of events—from April 6 to April 10—that aim to inform the Harvard community about the practices, beliefs, and cultures of Muslims on campus. According to HIS president Na’eel A. Cajee...
Actor James Haven came to Kirkland House’s Junior Common Room last night, bearing a message of solidarity but failing to deliver his famous sister, actress Angelina Jolie, and her partner, Brad Pitt—both of whom appeared set to attend the event earlier in the day, according to event organizers...
Sorry. So here's the deal: Actor James Haven came to the Kirkland Junior Common Room yesterday to accept a designation as the International Relations Council’s Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition's Senior Honorary Advisor for 2009. Whatever that is. FlyBy isn't sure either. But there's more: Haven's sister, actress Angelina Jolie, and her partner Brad Pitt were scheduled to attend the event so that they could see good old Jimmy get his award. Too bad they never showed. Figure out what happened (with more pics of Haven chilling at John Harvard?...
...simply browse away. The idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people tend to pick only those who agree with them...
Admiral Mike Mullen is an odd one. He eschews the crisp, classic aura of command; he comes across as a no-drama, common-sense-dispensing country doctor from downstate Illinois (actually, he's the son of prominent show-biz publicists from Los Angeles). But as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mullen is still the highest-ranking U.S. military officer, and so it was a bit disconcerting to see him taking flak from a group of Afghan farmers and international agricultural experts in Kabul the first week in April. "The military is giving away free wheat seed to Afghan...