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...Republicans going extinct? And can the death march be stopped? The Washington critiques of the Republican Party as powerless, leaderless and rudderless - the new Donner party - are not very illuminating. Minority parties always look weak and inept in the penalty box. Sure, it can be comical to watch Republican National Committee (RNC) gaffe machine Michael Steele riff on his hip-hop vision for the party or Texas Governor Rick Perry carry on about secession or Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann explain how F.D.R.'s "Hoot-Smalley" Act caused the Depression (the Smoot-Hawley Act, a Republican tariff bill, was enacted before...
...friend from high school visit for a weekend in lovely Cambridge. After I brought her around the yard and showed her the Square, the hunger struck. Of course, the average college budget precludes eating every meal at a taqueria or trattoria. So rather than follow the Donner Party’s grisly lead, we had to resort to lawlessness...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted its 225th class of fellows and foreign honorary members on Saturday in Sanders Theatre, with 14 Harvard professors and administrators among the inductees. Cumrun Vafa, Donner professor of science, expressed his happiness to be among this year’s inductees. “It is part of the American tradition of valuing sciences and arts and it is a great honor for me, especially coming from the different background of Iran,” he said. Vafa described the work in string theory for which he was elected...
...Blocks, a thriller that unfolds in real time. Willis hand-picked his co-star, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's MOS DEF, after seeing the rapper-actor in the play Topdog/Underdog. For Willis, playing the burnt-out officer "is obviously not a vanity role," says director Richard Donner. But, for the record, "Bruce's gut is mostly padding." Phew. Then he hasn't hurt his shot at an Abs of Steel video...
...Donner Professor of Science Cumrun Vafa, who was also honored, wrote in an e-mail that he was “glad to see so many of my colleagues at Harvard elected to AAAS, though given the quality of faculty here, this is not very surprising...