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...doors to female members in 1970, two years after Greenhouse’s graduation.Outside of the paper’s 14 Plympton Street offices, she was a government concentrator, a correspondent for the Radcliffe Quarterly, and a member of the Harvard Policy Committee. She was elected a class marshal her senior year.As an undergraduate, Greenhouse also worked as a stringer for The Boston Herald, which ultimately refused to even interview her for a post-college job because she was a woman.But in the face of gender bias, Greenhouse fought back. Her junior year, she helped lead a successful campaign...
Neil K. Mehta ’06, a second class marshal who heads this year’s class day speaker committee, said that he has relayed many seniors’ requests for MacFarlane to speak in the voice of Stewie during his speech today at 2 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. Stewie, who often makes sexual jokes and talks about killing his mother, is one of the most offensive characters on the cartoon show...
Last June, class marshal Caleb I. Franklin ’05 told The Crimson that the Harvard administration advised the Senior Class Committee to avoid selecting speakers who might offend older Class Day attendees. Some speculated that the choice of NBC news anchor Tim Russert for last year’s Class Day speaker may have been a reaction to the choice of Cohen the year before. Every Class Day speaker beginning in 2002 had been a comedian before Russert was selected...
...Seif al Islam says that Gaddafi?s confidence grew as the number of messages from the British and U.S. governments came in via MI6 and the CIA. The key breakthrough occurred on Sept. 6, 2003, when a British air marshal flew in to Tripoli on a Royal Air Force plane and handed Gaddafi a personal letter from the British Prime Minister formally agreeing to Gaddafi's conditions for proceeding. That paved the way for the visit of the MI6-CIA technical team to inspect all of Libya's top-secret WMD sites and report back to their governments...
...Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal This revival prompts a question: Herman Wouk, what were you thinking? In the context of his great sea saga - published as a novel in 1951 and turned into a 1954 film, then this play - the court-marshal of the psycho Captain Queeg is a demonstration of what happens when real-world wartime chaos gets translated into the cool legal niceties of the courtroom. But unmoored from its seagoing prologue, all that talk about Queeg's obsession with shirttails and strawberries lacks any dramatic punch. And why make so much of the betrayal of Lt. Keefer...