Word: masterfulness
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...Duane Meat ’05-’07, a leader in the campus Native American community, died Wednesday in his home state of Minnesota, according to Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’68. He was 24. The news spread quickly through Harvard’s Native American community yesterday. Meat played drums for the Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe and once served as president of Native American Students at Harvard (NAHC). He had planned to attend powwows during the peak summer season, said NAHC President Leah R. Lussier ’07, and had invited others...
Back in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville prophesized a bipolar future with Russia and the United States as opposed master puppeteers. The duel of course, is passé today. Russia is technically a democracy, a supporter of free markets which strives to join the World Trade Organization, and the host of the G8 summit this July in St. Petersburg. Especially in this context, the West must remember that nothing has really changed since the times of either Peter the Great or Lenin: Russia cares about its pride, not about global security. Amidst the rhetorical battle on the prospects of an American...
...return to the College in the fall for the final semester of his senior year. He was a resident of Leverett House and a former president of Native Americans at Harvard College. Leverett residents learned of Meat’s death last night in an e-mail from House Master Howard Georgi...
...civilians who devote their lives to protecting the endangered Tibetan antelope from unscrupulous poachers. Ritai (played with furious gusto by Tibetan actor Duobuji) copes with the murder of one of his men in the only way he knows: he starts hunting the hunters. With the grace of a master filmmaker, Lu seamlessly folds the story of Ga Yu (Zhang Lei), a wet-behind-the-ears reporter for a Beijing newspaper, into Ritai’s crusade against the poachers, deftly obscuring frontier journalism with frontier revenge. The subtitles that accompany the Mandarin and Tibetan dialogue don’t hamper...
...entertain most of the folks at the dinner Saturday night." But whose fault is that? Why, those who were not entertained, of course. The tepid response "tells us more about the audience than it does about Colbert." Not laughing, it turns out, was part of the press corps? master plan, because "Colbert refused to play his dutiful, toothless part. He had to be marginalized. Voil?: ?He wasn't funny.?" Never has "marginalized" sounded so sinister. He?s lucky we didn?t kill...