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...Hadfield ’08 to withdraw from the race.With former frontrunners Voith and Gadgil embroiled in controversy, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie M. Riley ’07 won an easy victory. We had gingerly endorsed Voith and Gadgil on the basis of their platform, but we rescinded that endorsement before the campaign’s end after the most serious of the accusations came to light. The UC began the spring semester with the annual debate about finding “discriminatory” student groups, defined as any organization that...
...role as any skill I possessed at every step. After all, the last time I had lost anything meaningful prior to my arrival in the Yard I was in seventh grade, I was running for elementary school vice president, and the main plank of my opponent’s platform was candy for lunch. Through a shrewd bit of skill, I promised students that they could teach for a day, and they elected me president the following year. What bumps in the road I encountered were few, far between, and easily weathered...
...held under Egypt's repressive, 25-year-old Emergency Laws, which allow initial detentions of 15 days that can be renewed indefinitely. The blogger and other activists stand accused of blocking traffic, assembling illegally in public, and insulting President Hosni Mubarak, 78, who was reelected in September on a platform of political and economic reform...
...Berlin The people came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers. Yet we?their fellow countrymen?have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have!" July...
...episodes are charming or poignant, with a lovely, lingering aftertaste. Special mention to Joel and Ethan Coen's vignette set in the Métro, as a tourist (Steve Buscemi) learns to his peril not to make eye contact with that mysterious young couple on the opposite platform. Another American in Paris, Sofia Coppola, was given the run of Versailles to film Marie Antoinette, about the Austrian girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst...