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President-elect Barack Obama’s use of the Internet and his focus on the youth vote have transformed the way campaigns are run, according to four Institute of Politics fellows who spoke at the Forum on Monday night. The event, moderated by Institute of Politics Director Bill P. Purcell, focused on what made Obama’s campaign victorious and the future Obama administration. “The youth vote went three to one for Obama, higher than ever before,” said Jennifer Donahue, a political reporter who directs the New Hampshire Institute of Politics...
...small town's Dionysian "Dirty Day" festival: "Those bulging sacks on the cart contain moist soil and live ants, the big, juicy, biting kind, bred and nurtured especially for tonight's extravaganza. Apparently, the ants are sprinkled with vinegar just before the main event, to get them really angry. An army of ant scatterers emerges from behind us, each one with a bag of the anty soil, which they launch into the air above our heads. Screams go up as the sky fills with soil and very annoyed ants...Everyone is maniacally scraping mud and insects from their hair...
...last year, it instantly became a cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics. Bolaño's second (and last) major novel is titled 2666, and if anything, it is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year. With its publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this week - adding to an oeuvre that includes several collections of short stories, numerous novellas and minor novels, and a volume of poems due out later this month from New Directions - Bolaño's posthumous conquest...
...Emerson lecture hall, and asked, “What’s the first word that comes to your mind?” The dating coach and editor of BetterAsianMan.com led a discussion about Asian male sexuality to about 20 Asian Harvard students Saturday afternoon in an event sponsored by the Taiwanese Cultural Society. Lee first divided the participants by gender, and then asked women to sit in front of the men so they would feel more comfortable voicing their reactions. Throughout the discussion, he compared their responses to the more negative stereotypes he had received from an all-female...
...been one of the most tireless advocates for education and specifically higher education and we are very much looking forward to the opportunity to present him with an honorary degree,” said University spokesman John D. Longbrake, who declined to comment on the details of the event...