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Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao discussed possible career options with students last night at the Institute of Politics. The event was part of the IOP Internships Program’s effort to allow students to speak to people with careers in politics and public service. The Office of Career Services co-sponsored the event. “I don’t see a lot of immigrants in the public service sector,” said Y. John Mei ’12, pointing to the similarities between his own background and Chao?...
...change all that, however inadvertently.From March 12 to March 19, the Brattle Theatre is showing a series of films funded by and promoting the Marshall Plan in Western Europe in a program called “Selling Democracy, Films of the Marshall Plan: 1948-1953.” The event, organized by curator Sandra P. Schulberg and funded by the Goethe-Institut (a German non-profit cultural institute), features 25 short films constructed around the Marshall Plan’s deployment in Europe. The films range widely in genre and rhetorical strategy, from simple narratives about how the Plan?...
...such stereotypes. His career has skyrocketed from music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra to his current position. It would be understandable for someone with such a young and illustrious career to be a bit cocky, but Gilbert is decidedly down-to-earth. At a Learning From Performers event at the New College Theatre last Friday, he was amicable, reflective, and insightful. He called his time at Harvard “amazing” and recounted his formative experiences at the university. Born in New York City in 1967, Gilbert grew up in a musical family; his father Michael...
...House List: Tranquil. Leverett’s house list is about as bland as they come. Threads are almost exclusively event postings, and even when someone posts things worth commenting on, no one responds. Trust FlyBy, though, this is a positive: no house list heroes that post their inane thoughts. And thanks to Gmail, all you have to do is throw up that filter. Set it, and forget...
...Chinese navy intelligence-collection ship, a Bureau of Maritime Fisheries patrol vessel, a State Oceanographic Administration patrol vessel and two small Chinese-flagged trawlers. McCreary noted that the two fishing trawlers involved were about as "civilian" as the government-owned U.S. spy ship. (A Pentagon-produced story about the event said a "civilian crew mans the ship," a half-truth that was repeated around the world by other media outlets. In fact, about half its roughly 50-member crew is military.) "The Chinese, like the North Koreans, the Indians and the Soviets, maintain positive control of fishing fleets which come...