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...respect for the crowd is not only innate and scrupulous, it is also structural, born of technological innocence: he doesn't know who they are--not scientifically, the way post-modern politicians do. The audience hasn't been sliced and diced by his pollsters, their prejudices and policy priorities cross-tabbed, their favorite words discovered by carefully targeted focus groups. He hasn't been told what not to say to them: Aeschylus would never survive a focus group. Kennedy knows certain things, to be sure: they are poor, they are black, they are aggrieved and quite possibly furious...
...over 70 percent. This occurred while social mobility declined: the Economic Policy Institute argues that there has been a 16 percent decrease in social mobility for the second-to-lowest quintile, and the prospects are even darker for the poorest one. Moreover, economist Earl Wysong found in a cross-generational study that nearly 70 percent of all sons in 1998 were doing equally or worse than their fathers twenty years before...
Folds, who is currently on a cross-country tour that has included stops at Swarthmore, Vanderbilt, and Yale, will be the headline act of Yardfest 2006. The event will only be open to Harvard undergraduates, according to Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II. Indie rocker Chris Mills, who is currently touring with Folds, will also perform...
...business yesterday for the Harvard baseball team and more than half of its pitching staff. Seven Harvard relievers hurled ten scoreless innings in the makeup of Wednesday’s snow-postponed tune-up against Holy Cross (9-12-1) in Worcester, Mass. Not long after captain Morgan Brown strolled home with the game-winning run on a Josh Klimkiewicz groundout in the top of the 11th inning, the Crimson (9-9-1) rolled into Cambridge with a 3-2 victory, its sixth straight win. En lieu of his regular midweek practice bullpen session, sophomore Shawn Haviland worked through...
Folds, who is currently on a cross-country tour that has included stops at Swarthmore, Vanderbilt, and Yale, will be the headline act of Yardfest 2006. The event will only be open to Harvard undergraduates, according to Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II. Indie rocker Chris Mills, who is currently touring with Folds, will also perform...