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Presidents that attended Harvard: John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josiah Jed Bartlett, Bill Pullman. Presidents that attended Yale: Warren G. Harding, Warren G, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, O.J. Simpson, Emperor Hirohito, Henry VIII, Manuel Noreaga, Rasputin, Bill Maher...
President Richard M. Nixon once called Harvard the “Kremlin on the Charles.” While he may have had a point in the ’60s and ’70s, this comment seems antiquated in 2001. And so the question arises: What is the face of student protest here now, and how do students see their activist peers on this campus today...
...screaming into a microphone: "It's a jungle in today's tech world!" Even the keynotes have lost all philosophical pretensions and are little more than cheerleading rallies - or in the case of Oracle's Larry Ellison, the world's second-richest man, a chance to vent his relentless, Nixon-like obsession with the Microsoft enemy. "Did you hear? They're bundling lunch with Windows now," Ellison joshed the crowd. Yes, we had heard that one before...
...skewered 13 Presidents; of pneumonia; in Washington. Block won three Pulitzer Prizes and shared a fourth. His images, which included one of Jimmy Carter trying unhappily to get a clear picture of himself on TV, could be withering. Block proudly recalled a Post publisher saying his work prompted Nixon to cancel his subscription four times. In 1994 Block received the Medal of Freedom. His last cartoon, at left...
...good example of a biographical movie that works well because of a single performance is Oliver Stone’s 1995 film Nixon. The entire film hinges around the performance of Anthony Hopkins as Nixon, and his portrayal is so great that at times it is hard to believe that he is not Nixon himself. For those who have lived through or are simply interested in the presidency and legacy of Nixon, the film is also a tour de force because of Oliver Stone’s unique and controversial interpretations of famous governmental figures (e.g. Kissinger) and events (Watergate...