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Every year, Eliot House holds its annual Matthiessen Dinner in honor of its first senior tutor, historian and literary critic F.O. Matthiessen. The distinguished guest this year: Massachusetts congressman for the 4th congressional district, Barney Frank ’62. The openly gay Democratic politician is known for his distaste of small-talk and unnecessary chitchat. FM was just able to steal 15 minutes of Frank’s time, only after the candid congressman had finished addressing an attentive crowd in a packed Eliot Dining Hall. With few formalities, the congressman jumped right in and articulated...
...Orthodox Jews slitting the throat of an Arab boy, pouring his blood into a basin, and making Passover matzah that they boast tastes much better than the ordinary kind. Why does our media repeat and recreate these anti-Semitic images, even as we object to anything that touches Muslim honor? Why are we fed this scummy hatred of Jews instead of being encouraged to visit Israel and to study Hebrew?And then there’s Iran, not Arab but Muslim, hence not included in the above statistic (613,660 square miles, population over 65 million). Why does our leader...
...awards, will now be handed down by the Center for Public Leadership. The awards have stirred occasional controversy—recipients include Ralph Nader and Jack Kevorkian. Center for Public Leadership Director David R. Gergen said the membership of the awards committee will not change and will continue to honor what Gleitsman stood for when giving the awards. “We ought to be daring because agents of social change are often controversial. That goes with the territory,” said Gergen, who is also a professor at the Kennedy School. About one-third of the money will...
...stopped short of the official apology some in Algeria had demanded, in his opening remarks in Algiers Monday Sarkozy did come more than halfway, admitting "yes, terrible crimes were committed throughout the war of independence that claimed innumerable victims on both sides", and that it was to honor all those victims that he'd made the trips. "It's this work of remembering that I've come to offer the Algerian people," he said...
...camera awkwardly zooms in on an unsuspecting partygoer, cutting off much of the action onstage. Two drinks if the person appears to have no idea he or she is on camera. 6. For any moment of ethnic profiling—naturally, all Chinese people dance with fans. 7. In honor of phallic imagery, drink whenever any male character uses a stick horse with gusto. 8. Drown the self-pity when you realize that Kirkland’s daily caloric intake is likely less than the popcorn you’ve just taken out of the microwave. This is especially evident...