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...eyes was grand old Harvard on parade, splendidly arrayed in academic robes and bonnets, in all of its pomp and pageantry, installing its new president according to the customary prescription. Yet with a few derisive words about Harvard’s Puritan heritage from Drew Gilpin Faust and her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann ’71, that visible visible continuity—between the Harvard of the present and the past—was sundered...
Hundreds of students gathered in senior suites and House common rooms last Thursday to watch the showdown between Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. While many people—from students to pundits—were vocal in their opinions of the candidates’ performances, few have the inside view of Andrew Halcro, who ran against Palin for governor of Alaska in 2006. Halcro, who attended an executive education program at the Kennedy School in 2003 and another at the Business School the following year, served as a Republican member of the Alaska...
...This seems fitting, because Shea Stadium is itself a giant error in both form and functionality. Unlike Yankee Stadium, its counterpart across the Long Island Sound, Shea’s massive concrete and steel structure has none of the quaint charm of a bygone era. Its proportions are oppressively regular and unimaginative, its seats are painted garish and clashing colors, its sightlines—a vestige from the stadium’s original design as a dual use football/baseball facility—are all bad. Sounds of the game are drowned out by the frequent roar of commercial jets taking...
...experience, his oratory gifts and his impressive life story. And if the primary prerequisite in a vice-presidential pick is finding someone unambiguously qualified to inherit the Oval Office, Obama made a judicious choice, especially in light of the competence questions that have continually dogged Biden's embattled Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin. Indeed, even the Republicans - who have hit their opponents on a wide range of issues, in keeping with the nonstop attack politics of the modern era - have not disputed Biden's readiness to lead. But as the vice-presidential hopeful heads into Thursday's debate with Palin...
...people close to Hitler kept telling him it was still possible to win," retorts a former government adviser. "That's what the people close to Brown are like." But there's some cause for optimism in the bunker: only a year ago, Brown was riding high and his Conservative counterpart, David Cameron, was in the doldrums. The speedy reversal in their fortunes recalls the old dictum that a week is a long time in politics...