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The convention felt like Harvard, Harvard, everywhere, and nothing alcoholic to drink.
Many of my native species (Cantabridgius ante-professionalius ambitious) had fled our summer habitats in Washington and on Wall Street for cooler temperatures, and hotter klieg lights, closer to home. According to a spokesperson for Boston 2004, the city’s convention host committee, more than 400 Harvard students...
We came, ostensibly, to serve, to cover, to protest the convention that would define one of the two men who will lead America in a perilous time. The issues the candidates are debating—budget deficits, health care costs and, most of all, the terrorist threat—will...
At the end of his speech—“This country is...the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too”—my phone didn’t stop ringing. From all over?...
Last week, as the Democratic National Convention filled Boston’s FleetCenter with four straight days of platform-pounding and strategic maneuvers, a political juggling act of a different sort was getting underway at Cambridge’s very own American Repertory Theatre (ART): the latest effort of the...