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About 200 students affiliated with Phillips Brooks House Association gathered in Lowell Dining Hall on Monday evening for the eighth annual Public Service Celebration, a formal dinner held to recognize outstanding senior volunteers for their achievements. While many students were honored for their social service work throughout the night, the specter of PBHA’s financial difficulties cast a slight damper on the evening’s festivities. Compared with previous years, fewer awards were distributed on Monday evening. “Due to some underperformance in the Harvard endowment, there was not as much funding to provide these...
...million at the North American box office. McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past earned $15.3 million. The totals nearly replicated those of last year's first May weekend, when Marvel's Iron Man took in $98.6 million to $14.8 million for the Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy Made of Honor. Shrugging off tepid reviews, Wolverine proved that Hugh is huge, movie-starwise, as long as he carries cutlery between his knuckles. In its first two days' release, it easily outperformed the total domestic take of Jackman's Australia, which made just $50 million here, though it pulled in a very honorable...
...similar success on the Charles Saturday, soundly beating MIT in the varsity and second varsity events to claim the first-ever Linda Muri Cup. The cup, named after Harvard freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Murri, who herself has won three world championships and 18 national championships, honored the MIT and Harvard grad for her contribution to the rowing community. “I think she’s the most decorated lightweight rower in the US, so it’s an incredible honor to be racing for a cup after her name,” said...
...Ashbery’s experimental tendencies once marked him as a figure of the avant-garde, but his enigmatic, intensely introspective brand of poetry has been receiving much popular acclaim of late. A bound Library of America edition anthologized his collected works in 2008, an honor accorded to the likes of Emerson and Whitman, and a course setting his work alongside Philip Larkin’s was offered at Harvard this spring. To top it off, yesterday President Faust presented Ashbery, now 81 years old, with the 2009 Harvard Arts Medal for “excellence in the arts...
...amazing voice and outstanding performing faculty are some of the qualities that earned Rachel E. Flynn ’09 the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize for achieving excellence in an extensive repertoire of musical theater. “It was such an honor,” she says. “The OFA has been such a tremendous organization of support who have been so wonderful in coming to our shows and being behind us. It was lovely to get this prize.” A college-long member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, she recently starred...