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This from a legislative body that has raised money-wasting to an art form. It wasn't too long ago that members of Congress often mistook corporate aircraft for the Congressional Airline. "Hitching" a ride on corporate jets was such a regular event, and so abused a privilege, that eventually the solons had to stop themselves. There was nothing to stop Senator John McCain from using his wife's jet to make dozens of campaign stops this year, contravening but not breaking election laws because he, or at least Mrs. McC, "owned" the aircraft through a family company. (Read...
...night of November 21st There was an event where we heard bad verse. Seven people onstage read some poems— Most were outrageous, none were ho-hum. It was at the Blacksmith House, beside Hi-Rise Bakery. And the poems were awful; there was no fakery. It was called the Bad Poets’ Society And this was the eighth time for such impropriety. Once there was a show shortly after 9/11, They’d decided to hold it, although the humor is irreveren’. That show, a success, was the first time Gene Doucette read...
...next image, without missing a beat. Such was the nature of The B.S. Contest—with B.S. standing for “business speaking”—sponsored by the Business School’s Public Speaking Club. The club hosted the final round of the event, with a format based on an improv game, for the first time yesterday. Over 40 people auditioned in the preliminary round, but only eight made it through to compete in the finals. Each of the contestants had seven minutes to present seven slides, some with ridiculous pictures of the imaginary...
...event, co-sponsored by Chabad and Hillel, was the second in two days held in honor of the victims...
...That event was sponsored by the South Asian Initiative at Harvard...