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...Bush is the ultimate "Blink" President, to use author Malcolm Gladwell's catchy term, and recent title, for instantaneous, subconscious decision making. The slogan on Gladwell's book jacket-"Don't Think-Blink!"-is a perfect mantra for an attention- deficit-disordered society, and an apt description of the electric jolt Bush has brought to politics and policy. It certainly was the subtext of the 2004 presidential campaign: Kerry's thinking seemed tortured, paralytic; Bush's blinking seemed strong and decisive...
Monday, February 21. Jacob’s “Perfect Film” (U.S., 1985). 7 P.M. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6 Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
It’s the little things that might yet sink the career of one of the smartest men I have ever met. At Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, professors presented a laundry list of petty slights, minor insults, and distant misdeeds that now add up to a perfect storm for Harvard’s president. The Faculty has stored up a cornucopia of complaints, each too small to warrant widespread anger on its own. But when great minds get together, they connect dots...
...Adams House Social Studies concentrator has “always been interested in politics and theatre.” The Abu Ghraib Show, the first “distinctly political” show performed at the Loeb Experimental Theater in decades, is the perfect...
Kind of like the Hasty Pudding itself. The veneer of camp belies the hard work that 57 undergraduates put in to perfect their garush glitter. The Pudding members mock celebrity, but they also worship it, promote it, and feed off of it. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ (HPT) show and the Woman of the Year ceremony are themselves a mix of kitsch and professionalism, heartfelt productions hidden by makeup. It started as a joke, but today, the Pudding is anything...