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...lock to applaud one of the speeches, which is interrupted by the announcement of a hockey or baseball score - Boston Bruins 3, Chicago White Sox 1 - voiced here by Bob Sheppard, the ageless (95) voice of the New York Yankees. A large screened is lowered onto the stage to highlight the election ("Wintergreen four votes short of winning!" ... "Wintergreen casts last four votes and wins!") It's all very, to use an innocent word from the show...
...denying its heritage and aesthetic. An intrinsic part of Harvard’s allure is its unique character, its singularly American mix of neo-Georgian, neo-Classical, and colonial architecture, its brick and ivy. The airy glass structures of Behnisch are beautiful to be sure, but they do not highlight Harvard’s heritage or evoke its glory. Instead they evoke the new science complexes of Anycollege, U.S.A., something which Harvard is not. No one would reasonably suggest that the Allston campus be all Smith Halls and Old Quincy—that wouldn’t make much...
...week against Princeton. “Those races were pretty inspiring for everybody,” lightweight co-captain Ashley Antony said. “It gives the team confidence that we know how to race, and we will give our best performance at Sprints.” The highlight was the varsity four’s wire-to-wire victory over MIT, the same squad Radcliffe had lost to in the grand finals of the Knecht Cup. The turnaround was a spark for the squad to continue its success at Eastern Sprints. “We were...
...least not without a push.Republicans don’t wake up each day hoping to undermine the common good. But Republicans do differ from Democrats, and some of those differences boil down to disagreements about whether to serve private interests or the public good. If Democrats want to highlight these differences, they have to talk about policy.Democrats have plenty of policies that serve the public interest. They could talk about their positions on education, on taxes, or on almost anything else. But talking about policies doesn’t mean that people will focus on them. In 2004, John Kerry...
...upcoming Harvard Sangeet performance is any hint of the types of performances to be highlighted at Arts First, then next week promises to be as diverse and varied as it is interesting and talented. The one-hour show will give the audience a glimpse into a traditional South Indian music called Carnatic. Vocalists Samir V. Rao ’08 and Vasanthi Sridhar ’07 will perform, accompanied on traditional Carnatic instruments by violinist Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06, and mridangam (a double sided South Indian drum) player Shakeel Avadhany (MIT ’09). According...