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...inspirational, and appealing to graduates and their guests,” Chenault’s name figured on a shortlist of about five names that was proposed to the administration in the planning phase, according to an e-mail from Associate Director of Student and Academic Services Kelly P. Diamond. In coordination with the University Marshal’s Office and the HBS Dean’s Office, he was selected as the prime candidate, Diamond wrote. The committee has not reviewed his speech, said Diamond, who added that she does not know what the subject of his address will...
Inside the lines of a baseball diamond, the passing of time has no effect—the rules of the game alone hold sway. And as long as certain conditions are met, a game of baseball could last forever, its combatants never aging...
Real men do power hours. Men with balls of steel do power hours during section. And men with balls of cut diamond do power hours in a section for a class they had no connection to. This last feat was recently accomplished by two senior boys from Quincy House. Somewhat surprisingly, given the copious amounts of beer they had to keep on their persons, they were not found out by their adopted TF. Or maybe grad students really, really just don’t care...
...people who know Brown best doubt that he'll ever metamorphose into the kind of confessional charmer the public would like enough to stand a round of drinks at their local pub. Some of his supporters pray he won't try, perceiving in his rough-diamond personality a much-needed antidote to the mounting public cynicism that has blighted Blair's final years. Morris, for one, hopes for an era of "politics done differently. If Labour has had a failure since 1997, it's that we've let that trust and openness with the public go." Brown himself suggests...
...ruling party won what some observers thought was the most fraudulent election ever in Nigeria--which is saying something. Once again, Nigeria is catching a wave. From Bangladesh to Thailand to Russia, political freedom is in retreat. In a book due out this fall, Hoover Institution political scientist Larry Diamond notes that "we have entered a period of global democratic recession...