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...Still, Romney’s resume reads “robber baron” to some. When Romney ran against Sen. Edward M Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) in 1994, Kennedy skewered the newbie with TV ads blasting Romney over an Indiana company’s layoffs prompted by then owner, Bain Capital. (Romney was on leave from Bain during the firings...
...stings when you stick your hand in a nest of fire ants. This nugget of wisdom—and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident...
...Sanders Theatre performance also featured several vocalists of the Harvard University Choir (UChoir) under the baton of Music Director Aram V. Demirjian ’08 and guest conductor Edward E. Jones. The combination of BachSoc, Elkies, and the University Choir made for a memorable and enjoyable evening...
...distortions that are impossible to separate from the imperialist and racist attitudes of the time in which the opera was written.The concern, of course, is a broader one of Orientalism—of the inaccuracies pervasive in Western treatments of Eastern cultures. Any such discussion necessitates the arguments of Edward Said, who observes that “The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings…remarkable experiences.” The Orient, he contends, has historically existed in the European (and Western) mind mainly in the form...
...results could have been swayed by the voters who gave their first-place votes to Ali A. Zaidi ’08 and Edward Y. Lee ’08, who made a third-place showing...