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During an unusually snowy day in April 1996, one Leverett House sophomore trekked through heavy slush down JFK Street to a bar called The Grill. It was Major League Baseball’s opening day, and the bar would be showing games from all over the country...
...performance had problems—too many words got lost in the shuffle—but the musical direction of Kyle J. Dancewicz ’11 kept things moving. There was one exception. “Something Just Broke,” which follows the assassination of JFK, is the only song in which the play’s assassins don’t sing. Instead, it’s citizens we hear, people remembering where they were when they heard the news. For a few different reasons—pitch troubles, difficulties with microphones—it never...
...White House dinner with President John F. Kennedy: "As Marlon attacked the pasta, Kennedy challenged him: 'Marlon, have you gained weight? Looks like you've put on a few.''Nary an ounce.''Kennedy grinned. "Then the CIA sent up some wrong information.'Marlon bet the president that JFK weighed more than he did. A bathroom scale was brought into the room. Brando checked in at 187 pounds. Kennedy was eleven pounds lighter.'Get some food into this man,' Marlon told the other guests. 'You can't lead the country at a hundred seventy...
...that the plot of assassinations ends here?SLL: I hope it does, or they’d have to rewrite the play. Avoid crazy people is a good start.RR: Have you avoided crazy actors?SLL: I wish. They’re crazy in a good way.RR: Who really shot JFK?SLL: I don’t know. I think it’s one of those crazy stories.Steven A. Travierso ’09RR: Who do you play?SAT: Lee Harvey Oswald.RR: What’s it like to play such a famous assassin?SAT: It’s weird...
...Hall at the IOP, the outnumbered Republicans prepare for a night of watching election results in hostile territory. They sit down with their laptops, McCain-Palin buttons, and cold pizza, hoping for a major upset. The sounds of cheering Obama fans at the Election Night Party in the adjacent JFK Jr. Forum are only somewhat muted. But the prospects of an upset grow dimmer as the projection screen in front of the room reports one blue state after another. For Colin J. Motley ’10, President of the HRC, the tendency of exit polls to exaggerate offers some...