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...well as feel out my personal position on the issue. Admittedly, it was a precarious situation, as it was difficult to know whether I was speaking to her on behalf of the Crimson Staff, or simply regarding my own personal stance on the President’s faux pas. More importantly, however, I was wondering why the latter would be important. If I was coming on the show to discuss how Harvard’s student newspaper came to a consensus on the Faculty-Larry debate, why would we focus on what I, as an individual, thought...
...reputation seems to be a universal one—and although Summers’ faux pas and public relations debacles at Harvard can account for most of it, his name has been inextricably linked to controversy since the early nineties...
...course, this is after three minutes of foods listed in French alternating with a chorus of “I am hungry / Cause you’re not here any more / Hungry / Me so hungry!” The next track, “Ne M’Appelle Pas Ta Liche” continues in the speedy surf-rock of “Hungry!” with an added degree of cool and almost desperation in the chorus’ exit of “deteste...
...thing, for some good reason. The stereotypes of collegiate life, the paucity of knock-out talent, and the proliferation of such tired or terrible numbers as “Like A Prayer” and “Walking in Memphis” (terrible, n’est pas?) have marred the image of this no-instruments genre, to the great detriment of those talented groups who can turn heads with their song and who preserve different and unique kinds of vocal music. Two such groups share a stage this Friday, when the Radcliffe Pitches celebrate 30 years as Harvard?...
...learn the cultural sensitivities of far-flung regions. "Increasingly, it's about building relationships, something American businesses are just beginning to understand," says Jacqueline Whitmore, director of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla., who has seen her business triple in the past three years. Faux pas often begin, etiquette experts say, with an overly familiar, laid-back style in locales where "business casual" is an oxymoron and first names are reserved for family and close friends. Polo shirts aside, the minefields are everywhere: skipping tea drinking in Asia, for example, and forsaking small talk to rush headlong into negotiations...