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When he came to the podium, Summers began his address with an unscripted, enthusiastic, “I accept!” that echoed his original Loeb House press conference almost seven months ago, when the University first officially introduced him as its choice...
When he stepped up to the podium in 1869, Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, promised Harvard academic excellence across the board...
Simple in design—minimalistic lighting on a bare stage where the performers sat in a row along the back and came forward to the podium to perform—the show let each work stand for itself. Twenty segments of about five minutes each flowed seamlessly into the next, although the works varied in terms of presentation and theme (the proceedings drew both on John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Aeschylus’ Eumenides...
Summers did not use the podium and addressed the council members from his seat at a table. While at times he tapped his feet or traced figure eights with his finger over his mouth, Summers seemed willing to let the conversation amble on until he had heard every view on the matter...
...before proposing to her. With that hurdle out of the way, all that remained between Barkley and happily ever after were those four little words. In front of the newly elected representatives, council veterans and his closest friends, Barkley delivered an emotional speech and then stepped down from the podium, as though he were finished. But of course, he wasn’t. “And there’s one more thing,” Barkley added as he approached Ausman, pulled her up to the stage, and, after reading her the lyrics to the Lonestar?...