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When we walk across the stage to get our diplomas at Commencement, we celebrate our entire Harvard experience: an experience that has consisted of four years’ worth of lectures, parties, and dining hall dinners. There are the people we have met, the classes we have taken, and the extracurricular activities we have poured our hearts into. Understandably then, graduating is an emotional personal moment, and consequently, during it, expensive keepsakes should be the last things on on one’s mind. However, there is a growing trend toward reducing the personal importance of the occasion to potential...
...salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming states like Iowa and the $80 million big agriculture poured into lobbying last year, explains why congressional attempts at reform have been slow in coming, and met with considerable resistance. Just recently, a group representing the American Farm Bureau Federation has been brining in farmers from Iowa to Washington, promising to give policymakers “a dose of in-your-face reality.”The “reality,” however, is that...
...says something about the durability of the Republican message. THC: Why do you think people criticize you so frequently and protest at your speeches? KR: I like to focus on the positive side. I’ve been surprised with the civility with which I’m mostly met. There are always occasional nuts. It’s generally the older townies when I go to campuses that are the more raucous ones. Or the older townies that are the 9/11 deniers, that kind of thing. THC: If you could advise our generation about one thing we should change...
...still fascinating, noirish films in the late 40s: Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway. Then he got blacklisted by Hollywood and settled in Paris. After four idle years Dassin achieved international renown with Rififi; he won the Director prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, where he met his future wife, the actress Melina Mercouri. They made nine films together, including his biggest success, Never on Sunday. That romantic comedy, with the director playing a naive American grecophile and Mercouri as the Athens whore who liberates him, landed Dassin two Oscar nominations, for director and screenplay. In 1964, Topkapi...
...communications director for development Jerry Kisslinger. “Many of the trustees of the university are playing lead roles in the campaign both as volunteers and as donors,” he said. “The campaign has launched with really amazing momentum” and has met success “both in terms of the levels of giving and increasing the breadth of giving.” But not all smaller schools are victims of the dearth of experience cited in the survey. Vice President for Development at Dickinson College Donald A. Hasseltine reported that their...