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...Mueller ’10 and “courtesy of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals,” soured the show. Dressed in an outrageous swan tutu, Mueller pranced around, idiotically parodying the “Swan Lake” clichés. It was an entirely pointless moment of slapstick comedy that needlessly cheapened the previous half. “Contra Finem” was the first actual performance of the second half. Set to a live cello Brahms piece, Schreier’s modern choreography was complex, compelling, and absolutely stunning. The dancers lived up to the difficult...
...Removing the dark pall of political controversy and polemics from the ROTC ceremony will not impugn the progressive credentials of the President or her University. Rather, it will permit, if only for a moment, the ROTC students a much-deserved yet seldom-granted spotlight...
...charismatic conservative, enjoyed the third-longest papacy in church history, and refused to budge on the left's demands; instead, he eventually swept away liberal bishops. The heads at Call to Action grayed, and by the late 1990s, Vatican II progressivism began to look like a self-limited Boomer moment...
...pursue a stand-alone policy would be “lunacy and insanity.” Philipp W. Grimm ’11, a member of the IOP Forum Committee, which Ahern’s “frank and warm personality.” The only tense moment of the evening came when one questioner accused Ahern’s government of irresponsibly relinquishing Irish sovereignty. “There’s a very live debate at home about whether Ireland should take another step in losing sovereignty,” said John J. N. Lacy, an Irish...
...Starting to get a little worked up, I paused a moment, and then looked Rumsfeld straight in the eye. "Sir, I cannot believe that you didn't know I was being left in charge in Iraq...