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Every year, Eliot House holds its annual Matthiessen Dinner in honor of its first senior tutor, historian and literary critic F.O. Matthiessen. The distinguished guest this year: Massachusetts congressman for the 4th congressional district, Barney Frank ’62. The openly gay Democratic politician is known for his distaste of small-talk and unnecessary chitchat. FM was just able to steal 15 minutes of Frank’s time, only after the candid congressman had finished addressing an attentive crowd in a packed Eliot Dining Hall. With few formalities, the congressman jumped right in and articulated...
...Fifteen Minutes (FM): Congressman, you lived in Winthrop House while you attended Harvard. Why are you eating in Eliot House tonight? Where’s the house pride...
...Dick Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable men Wall Street and corporate America has ever seen" as well as an autocrat whose "obsession with...
Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09 is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. She is editor-in-chief of “New Society: Harvard College Student Middle East Journal...
...Jordan B. Weitzen ’08, whose Eliot House suite is one of the few on campus with access to satellite television, the television writers’ strike this month has come as something of a blessing in disguise. “It gives me more time to concentrate on more important things, which is nice with papers and finals coming up,” Weitzen said in a telephone interview. Across campus, even among the masses whose dorm-room channel selection numbers in the single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater...