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...eve of Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan after eight years in exile, the streets of Karachi are plastered with posters welcoming the two-time former Prime Minister back home. Banners hang from overpasses and the city's iconic palm trees drip with the red, green and black of her Pakistan People's Party colors. Billboards, which usually feature ads for Motorola and new shopping centers, have been taken over by greetings from party faithful. Every available wall has been tiled with her image in Warhol-like repetition, and graffiti screams WELCOME HOME, GREAT LEADER...
...Eve H. Bryggman ’10, a student in Livesey’s class who has never taken a history class before, said that she found Livesey “nothing but encouraging from the beginning...
...explicitly avoided sketching a specific road map for her tenure in her 30-minute speech, calling inaugural addresses “by definition pronouncements by individuals who don’t yet know what they are talking about.”In an interview with The Crimson on the eve of her inauguration, Faust also said that naming a list of initiatives would have meant that “no single one of them can get the full attention that each one deserves.”“When you half-explain things, which is the best...
...wrote about, words were swords in the duel of wits. He thought of himself as a screen playwright, and Hollywood as Broadway West: films were theater in closeup. (Academy voters apparently agreed with Mankiewicz: they named him best director as well as best writer for Three Wives and Eve.) No question, he loved the sound of his own authorial voice; it had an overripe eloquence that could beguile any viewer-listener. And when he turned plays into films - producing Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story or directing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - he could fall in love with other voices...
From the reserved elegance of Memorial Church to the sweeping grandeur of Sanders Theatre, the Harvard community honored 28th University President Drew G. Faust with two festive events on the eve of her inauguration. Yesterday afternoon, Nobel laureate in literature Toni Morrison gave a reading during the first function celebrating Faust’s installation. Later in the evening, a concert helped ring in a new era of Harvard history. Standing amidst the towering columns of Memorial Church, Morrison brought the audience members—which included Faust, Corporation fellows, and other Harvard community members—back...