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...though, and the impertinent question remains just as pertinent. Last Thursday, Harvard’s Center for European Studies hosted a talk titled “On Genius and Geniuses in the Eighteenth Century.” At ease at the head of the Cabot Room’s oval table, a tan, tweed-clad Florida State professor delved into the religious and cultural roots of Enlightenment conceptions of “genius.” But throughout the presentation, the unspoken question hovered: Does the idea of genius still exist today...
...That Ford was able to survive this harsh environment on its own is impressive, though much of the feat owes to a savvy decision in 2006 to mortgage all of its assets right down to its blue-oval trademark in exchange for $26 billion," says Toprak. "Taking out the mortgage proved remarkably prescient and allowed the company to avoid bankruptcy as the financial crisis swallowed its domestic rivals...
...gets shot, it's too damn bad.' RICHARD NIXON, indicating he would rescind Ted Kennedy's Secret Service bodyguards after the 1972 presidential election; according to recently transcribed Oval Office tapes, Nixon afforded Kennedy protection in part so the agency could spy on the Senator and expressed disappointment when an aide reported that Kennedy was "very clean...
...First up were two singer-songwriter acts—the poppy band of Alison R. Wood ’01, and Jeremy J. Parise ’96—who played to an audience clustered in pairs on the requisite low leather couches. At this point, the oval-shaped room, covered with overlapping wooden panels, felt like the belly of a very fashionable beast. But as louder acts followed—with the youthful Moniker rocking out on their four guitars and asking the crowd to get up—Tenjune started to feel like a real rock venue...
...House. With Joe Jr. gone, John Kennedy put on the outfit. He was a sickly, slight, half-crippled young man, but he managed to swell himself to size through cunning and courage and cortisone. Old-style politics, in the form of Chicago's Daley machine, boosted him across the Oval Office threshold. But as soon as he landed, the Kennedy myth-makers went to work vacuuming up the grit. The scaffolding of ward bosses was removed to reveal the polished image of a prince...