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...stand honored by your trust, inspired by your charge,” Drew G. Faust told thousands of spectators as she took the podium for her installation as Harvard’s 28th president on Friday afternoon.In a rainy and blustery Tercentenary Theatre, Faust turned to the past as she articulated a vision of Harvard’s future. Dressed in a robe modeled on the raiments of a Puritan minister, she invoked John Winthrop as she presented what she called a “compass to steer by,” a web of broadly conceived priorities...
...stand honored by your trust, inspired by your charge," Drew G. Faust told thousands of spectators as she took the podium for her installation as Harvard’s 28th president on Friday afternoon...
...every Iranian family who has a girl, they’re 10 times happier than having a son…women are more respected than men are.” Even more telling was his discourse on Iran’s treatment of gays. A clown cowering behind his podium, Ahmadinejad claimed, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that...
...sports teams can have recorded as many firsts in a season as Formula One's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. After motorsport's top competition got underway in March, Lewis Hamilton, the English team's rookie driver, strung together five podium finishes in a row, the best start to a season by any debutant driver. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag. And following two more Grand Prix wins, Hamilton and his Spanish teammate - current World Champion Fernando Alonso - head into this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in the top two slots in the drivers...
...Among the hot-ticket films that played Venice before Toronto: Ang Lee's steamy Lust, Caution, the Iraq war dramas Redacted and In the Valley of Elah, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, the Bob Dylan fantasia I'm Not There. Clooney and Pitt stood on the red-carpeted podium outside the Sala Grande to promote their product. All the big Hollywood films were shown in Venice's first few days, so the stars and directors could return to North America and catch a breath before coming to Toronto...