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...Virginians. Despite his speech’s centrist overtones, he took care to include progressive themes. “Being part of the sensible center does not mean that we have to get rid of our progressive ideals,” he said. Warner came to campus as a guest of IOP Fellow Adam Nagourney, the national political reporter at the New York Times, and spoke to a group of Harvard College Democrats. The Harvard Dems sent 18 undergraduates to Virginia this fall to knock on doors and phone bank for Tim Kaine, who was lieutenant governor under Warner...
...down the street [in Europe] holding a violin case, no one is tempted to ask you what your day job is.” This past August marked Wolff’s return to the U.S. True to form, much of his upcoming year will be spent traveling and guest conducting for orchestras across Europe. Yet Wolff looks forward to settling back into the American music scene. “I’m hoping to be able to transmit some of that [European tradition] to American orchestras...
...Lane and Peter Flynn started the festival, which began as an academic event featuring Irish films produced since the 1920s, while at Amherst College. It included panels and guest speakers, but at the end of the day, most of the people who attended were Irish-Americans interested in seeing movies from their own cultural background. The special program was so successful that despite what Flynn refers to as “the whole nightmare that it was” they decided to make it an annual event...
...weeklong swing through Asia, but first he had some fun. The President eschewed the high-priced bric-a-brac that usually passes for host gifts between world leaders, and startled Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday by cruising up to the bamboo-fenced Kyoto State Guest House on a Segway-the two-wheeled upright self-propelled scooter of the future that is a popular rental for tourists. Witnesses said Koizumi looked taken aback, but accepted Bush's suggestion that he go for a spin. A Japanese Foreign Ministry official told reporters that Bush said he had given...
...birthday since 1921, when Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune, a Marine commander during World War I, wrote a summary of the history of the Corps and required that it be read to every Marine on November 10 each subsequent year to commemorate the birthday of the Corps. The guest of honor and keynote speaker at Thursday’s celebration, Lt. Col. David “Bull” Gurfein, the president of the class of 2000 at Harvard Business School, received the first slice of cake. Gurfein, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs who re-joined the Corps after...