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...real Harvard are the names of the three admissions officers who accept Elle into Harvard Law—Pforzheimer, Lowell, and Winthrop.The event also took on a lighter tone. Members of The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, dressed in drag as sorority sisters and Elle Woods, tested their Elle (David J. Andersson ’09) against Gulsvig in a series of challenges, including dog training and practice LSAT questions. After being presented with the impossible challenge to help a fellow sorority sister locate her true love, Gulsvig upstaged Andersson’s answer and revealed her natural wit by thinking...
...until creation, and a continually moving barometer of the listener’s musical breadth. Finding the totality of what music has to offer, as with any art, is about discovering connections, following them to their end, and then making more.An Essential Mix from almost a decade ago by David Holmes led me to explore the artists that influenced and provided the tracks for his horn-infused, funk-dance mixes, as well as a little known singer-songwriter named Ellen McIlwaine.Later, the DFA Remixes led me to a London band called Cage & Apiary, which led me to a blog called...
...Ebbin and I knew each other briefly as colleagues; he sold ads for Washington City Paper, a weekly where I was a reporter.) Using Ebbin's expertise, the gay donors - none of whom live in Virginia - began contributing to certain candidates in the state. There were five benefactors: David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill of Denver, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel of San Francisco, grandson of George, who founded the famous meat...
...When I interviewed him on Oct. 18, Obama said he was "happy" that General David Petraeus was at Central Command, supervising the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last June, Obama told me that he would want "people like" Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his Cabinet. Petraeus is studying the options in Afghanistan, with the goal of producing a detailed action plan for the next President by the end of December. It is likely the general will recommend the resumption of troop withdrawals from Iraq on something resembling the Obama timetable. Indeed, Iraq has slipped down the list of national...
...Finding jobs for millions of unemployed is "the biggest challenge [China's] leadership faces" says David Dollar, head of the World Bank's China office in Beijing. The current crisis has greatly accelerated a process that was already underway as China's economy has been shedding low-level factory jobs to transition to manufacturing higher value-added products and jobs in the service industry. "In a way, the crisis could work out well for China. It has the potential to help in rebalancing the economy away from production" to the creation of more jobs in the service sector, says Dollar...