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This year, though, Radcliffe has yet to best either of its two sworn enemies. The Knecht Cup witnessed the Tigers ascending the podium yet again, while the Badgers grabbed the second slot. Two weeks ago, the Black and White met up with Princeton on its own turf, but Princeton edged out the first varsity by seven seconds...
During a Senate filibuster, members of the minority party delay a vote put forth by the majority party by taking advantage of their unlimited time at the podium. Senators often speak for hours, even reading from encyclopedias and cookbooks, in order to block votes...
After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...
Special guests help, HRO members say, and partly for this reason, last Friday’s concert featured two rather high-profile female vocalists to accompany the orchestra. For the second piece of the night, Yannatos took the podium and conducted Blauvelt’s “Pishi,” a melancholy number with Paula Murrihy, an Irish mezzo-soprano and a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. The piece, sung in Russian, began with an ominously dissonant moan from the orchestra, which swelled to climax as Murrihy sang her despondent first lines...
Yannatos, wearing a tuxedo instead of his usual orange shirt and brown vest, conducted furiously from the podium, his concentration visible and his movements powerful. During rehearsals, his usually soft voice was often replaced by a sharp, angry bark as he pushed his orchestra to perfection...