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...authors of a book on the interface between internet and politics ascribed a recent national political realignment to the rise of a “Millennial Generation” immersed in on-line, social-networking technologies at an Institute of Politics event yesterday. Authors Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, together with Kennedy School professor Elaine C. Kamarck, emphasized the centrality of a young generation—born between 1982 and 2003—to the rise of the Democratic party in the 2008 election, and said that the influence of this “Millennial” voting bloc...
...dispute during an externally-sponsored event on the prospects for Chinese democracy caused the Harvard University Police Department to remove audience member Wei Chaoyong, a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, from the Fong Auditorium yesterday evening. The event featured Szeto Wah, a prominent Chinese dissident and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China, who said that the international community would be mistaken to think that the country’s communist government was moving towards a more democratic society. “On the surface, the Chinese Communist government...
...drew a crowd of 75 people to the Brattle Theatre, according to Heather Gain of Harvard Book Store. This time when he is in Boston, he will read at Porter Square Books on May 7. When asked about the reading, Ellen Jarrett, who is in charge of organizing events for the bookstore, says, “I am very hopeful for a good event...His first book was very popular. And based upon the popularity of his piece in The New Yorker, it should be a good event...
...Dawson’s Creek.” We have to wait until the first commercial break to learn this, but then we know. It turns out to be a “Dawson’s Creek” marathon, a rare Sunday morning event where they play every single episode back to back.We lean back on the couch, our cereal nothing but a few flakes drying on the sides of the bowls, a misting of orange juice crawling down the edges of our glasses, as one episode follows another. “You know this show...
...angry students barged into the administrative building and kicked the deans out. FlyBy didn't know the anniversary had passed--but considering FAS's projected $220 million deficit over the next two years, we probably don't have the funds to invite guest speakers to commemorate an event like that anyway. More ruminations on student takeovers after the jump...