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...celebrating 20 years of the enactment of the 1988 Brazilian constitution. This is actually something quite remarkable,” Mendes said, noting that Brazil is currently experiencing the longest period of democracy in its history. “The constitution was enacted at a very special, historic moment, after 20 years of military dictatorship in Brazil—[it] has survived very difficult institutional moments.” Joao Sa, an exchange student from Brazil said that he was drawn to Mendes’ talk because of their shared heritage. “Justice Mendes gives very relevant decisions...
Last Wednesday, former Vice President Al Gore ’69 stood before a packed Tercentenary Theater and proclaimed: “This is a unique moment in which we have to do something unprecedented in favor of the survival of human civilization.” If the faculty and staff who flanked Gore, the President who introduced him, and the thousands of students who gathered to listen were any indication of the future of Harvard’s sustainability work, then Gore could not be more right. The event, which electrified the Harvard student body with a fervor usually...
...over the world and suitcases of all shapes and sizes to emphasize the themes of travel and human interconnection, was constantly flooded with action. So as to imitate real life, there were normally several actors on stage who were doing something completely unrelated to the central action of the moment. Although this made the plot difficult to follow, it added greatly to the energy and swift action of the play. Videt beautifully utilized an enormous white curtain throughout the play, imitating things as various as the ice sheets where the Neolithic body was found or Virgil and Alice?...
...best thing for him to do at this point is spend every moment of every day talking about the economy. No more talking about William Ayers, no more talking about al-Qaeda, no more talking about the "tests" that the next President will face. All economy, all the time. And if he talks about it while standing on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, so much the better...
...moment, Osborne and his colleagues are left scratching, but fleas have a habit of jumping and in recent days some reporters have turned their attention to the ties that bind Rothschild and Deripaska and to the impact of the credit crunch on their business interests. Rothschild explained in his Times letter that he was moved to intervene because of Osborne's original indiscretion in telling a journalist about his private conversation with Mandelson. "It ill behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances. Perhaps in future it would be better...