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...crowd sitting elbow to elbow in the basement performance space at New York City's Comedy Cellar on a recent Wednesday night had pretty much had its fill of sex jokes, gay jokes, rants about New York cabdrivers and time-filling banter with the couple in the front row who had just gotten married a week ago. Then, a few minutes after midnight, James Smith, a lanky Australian stand-up who has appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords, bounded onto the stage for a 15-minute set to do something a little different. He talked politics...
After a worldwide search for a candidate to fill Harvard’s new professorship in Chinese social history, former Associate Professor Michael Szonyi was selected to assume the post on July 1, 2009. Szonyi is a social historian who, in addition to reading historical texts, seeks to challenge historical accounts by speaking with village elders, collecting documents from villagers, and observing lineage and temple rituals in order to see history from a local perspective, he said. “It takes a very different skill set than the one we usually associate with history,” Szonyi said...
...garner support from other politicians, even those who disagreed with him, was exemplary. However, the next generation of public servants need not have a famous last name to be equally effective. We hope that present and future legislative leaders study Kennedy’s successes and step up to fill the void he left behind...
...course, Kerry is now the head of the Massachusetts delegation, which is currently scrambling to fill the gaping hole left by Kennedy. "And all of us in our delegation, and a number of us have talked about it - I mean we've got to make sure that there's not a gap here," Kerry says, referring to the effort to change the current state law, which doesn't allow an interim appointment until the seat is filled with a special election early next year. But don't ask Kerry who will fill Kennedy's seat. "There'll be a spirited...
...this point Kennedy's widow, Victoria, passes by, and Kerry - hip be damned - pops up with a grimace. He hugs her and, teary eyed, she says, "I just want to make him proud." Kerry nods. He too knows well the feeling of having big shoes to fill. See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...