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...Eric Dolphy “Orgy” on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB. An Orgy is WHRB’s signature programming, when the station throws conventional shows like “Afternoon Concert” and “Jazz Spectrum” out the door and instead plays all of the works of composers like Mozart, or devotes several hours to “Songs My Boyfriend and I Have Argued About.” The idea is creativity and above all else length, and, being the strangely committed senior that I am, I decided...
...Growing up in Corning, N.Y., the family company played a large role in Houghton’s childhood: the Corning plant—which had been run by the Houghton family for four generations—was next door to the family’s house...
...Clinton booing and the rest, including the chagrined members of the panel, frantically hushing both sides as if to say, 'Don't go there, don't show the Republicans how dysfunctional we are.' It was also a cry of desperation, because the panel's ruling virtually ensured that the door was slamming on Clinton, who with three races to go now has little chance of overcoming Obama's lead. The meeting only went downhill from there, with committee co-chair Alexis Herman pounding the gavel in a vain attempt to restore order and Harold Ickes, a senior Clinton advisor...
...Instead, the panel's lunch turned into a three-hour closed-door session, during which the members finally agreed on a compromise - though it was basically the position taken by the Obama campaign, not to mention the one Republicans smartly came up with for their side long before the disputed primaries took place: seat both delegations but grant each only half a vote per delegate as a penalty. In what the Obama campaign called a "gift" to Clinton they agreed to seat Florida's delegates based on the results of that state's January 29th primary, yielding Clinton...
...headquarters, littered with scattered papers and filing cabinets. "If somebody had been taking their passport picture an hour earlier, you can see what would have happened," he notes, pointing to the tall metal column that has fallen on the precise spot where people sit to be photographed. At the door of another office, a bookshelf has collapsed onto a chair. "If somebody had been sitting at that desk," he says, not finishing his sentence...