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...event marked one of the less than a handful of times that Harvard has awarded an honorary degree outside of the June Commencement. Three heads of state—George Washington, Nelson Mandela, and Winston Churchill—are the only people to receive similar awards at special ceremonies...
What we were conceded was 15 minutes during the debate on the party platform on Tuesday night. At the event, Kennedy took 45, and the applause rolled on for an hour more. He spoke "not to argue as a candidate but to affirm a cause"; as his voice rang out his vision of change, I watched the delegates, ours and then Carter's, on their feet and on their chairs, swept up in waves of cheering. I had a unique vantage point, sitting on the steps just below the podium, a spot where Kennedy could glance down...
...Biennale 2009 seemed little changed from 2003's. The names were the same - British artists Gilbert & George, the American Bruce Nauman - and the discussions almost identical. Ambition, both on the part of the artists and the collectors who hoped to gain prestige from their purchases, dominated every event. "The hunger to succeed ... was ravenous," Atman says. "In different historical circumstances any number of these artists could have seized control of the Reichstag or ruled Cambodia with unprecedented ruthlessness...
...through the mess is worthwhile, if only to find Woodstock - 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm (Rhino Entertainment Co.), a six-disc collection of 77 tracks, many of which were thought lost, that strips out the mythology and reconstructs Woodstock as it was intended: a musical event. (See the top 10 music festival moments...
Harvard-Yale Race: 1. The oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the country. 2. Multi-mile crew race held annually on the Thames river in New London, Conn., in which the ever-dominant Harvard crew embarrasses its Eli counterparts...