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...FITZSIMMONS himself arrived in Cambridge in 1963 amid Harvard’s burgeoning meritocracy. A working-class Massachusetts native, he was warned by the head of his parochial high school that Harvard was a “godless and communist place...
...musing on the workings of communist ideology, Czech writer Milan Kundera notes about what he calls the two tears of kitsch. ?The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass. The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse...
...story of the inner workings of government,” he said. Gardner argued that though former President Carter is sometimes criticized for weakness in foreign policy—for instance, his handling of the Iranian hostage crisis—certain administration policies, such as its engagement with communist student and labor groups in Italy, eased tensions and created common ground. Gardner discussed his views on current policy after the forum was opened to questions from the audience. “We should have never invaded Iraq,” Gardner said emphatically. “I don?...
...SENTENCED. HUANG JINGAO, 53, Communist Party whistleblower who exposed graft in local government; to life in prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
...play is comprised of three parts. In the first, the old primary communist leaders debate the future of Russia and the world while waiting for a speech to take place. In the second, a bureaucrat attempts to seduce Kat (Catrin M. Lloyd Bollard ’08), the guard at a bizarre storage facility for brains of important Party members, as they discuss the future of Russia and the world. He is rebuffed when her female lover, B (E.A. “Zia” Okocha ’08), shows up. The couple discusses sex, vodka and the future...