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...Harvard t-shirt and baseball cap. Justin H. Haan ’05 the Campus Life Fellow, speculated that pep rallies last appeared at Harvard in the late 1950s and estimated the total cost of last night’s event­—which also featured giant searchlights illuminating the Yard and hot chocolate, cider and cookies for the students—at $5,000. The rally was organized by a union of student organizations, including the Campus Life Committee, the Pub Night Commission, the H Club, the Band, the Cheerleading Squad, the football team, the House Committees...

Author: By Doris A. Hernandez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Rally for the Team, Bash Bulldogs | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...regime likes to show off the Arirang festival to foreign visitors (Kim took then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to a similar event during her 2000 visit). Staged at night in the giant May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, the pageant features tens of thousands of costumed dancers, gymnasts and singers performing an elaborate tribute to Kim and his father - North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. Thousands of children seated on the bleachers opposite the spectators flip colored flash cards to create an ever-changing backdrop of slogans and uplifting images. ?They are fighting for the happiness of our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dream Life of the North Koreans | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

Expertly wielding a 35-inch sword, a Marine officer sliced up a giant chocolate cake to the strains of Auld Lang Syne to kick off a celebration of the 230th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Harvard Business School (HBS) Thursday. In a reunion laced with military tradition, 200 current and former Marines and officers gathered to hear about the history of the Corps, which was founded in 1775 at a Philadelphia tavern, and to discuss more contemporary challenges facing Marines in Iraq. Entering the event, festive Marines in uniform shouted “Happy Birthday?...

Author: By Rachel L. Pollack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marine Corps Reunites at HBS | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

Dressed as a giant bumblebee and a jumper-suited school girl, two cast members from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals presented Cambridge Public Schools with a $11,000 check Friday night as part of the Theatricals’ initiative to improve arts education in local schools. The five-minute event, which took place at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preceded the high school’s 7:30 p.m. production of “The Madwoman of Chaillot.” Started three years ago, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment has subsidized tickets for over...

Author: By Kathleen Pond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pudding Donates to Arts Education | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...sense of skewed reality pervades the design of the play. We are confronted throughout by a giant portrait of Lenin painted on a broken wall, gazing down disapprovingly. His stern demeanor is broken, however, by jars (the brain-containing type) placed in alcoves cut out of the wall close to the ground and later, more strikingly, by backlit X-rays of people harmed by radiation, which shine out from Lenin’s formerly implacable face. Adding to the alternate-reality effect is the use of stilts for the party leaders and fat suits (and in one case, a costume...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Slavs!" Topples Communism in Style | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

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