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With his four potential successors doing most of the talking over the last week, soon-to-be-former Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 took his turn at the podium yesterday, lecturing for 20 minutes on the council’s various deficiencies...
When he called on the student dressed as a cow later in the class, the boy-heifer approached Zimny’s podium and offered him his choice of vanilla or chocolate milk. Retaining his composure, an amused Zimny chose the vanilla milk, took a sip and continued on with lecture on deviance...
...Moments later, Bremer took the podium, telling the crowd he had a Thanksgiving letter from Bush to read to the troops. Turning to General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of the 131,000 US ground forces in Iraq, Bremer asked: "General, is there anyone more senior than us here to read the letter?" and waved his arm towards the netting backdrop. It was Bush...
...little-known Midwesterner named Abraham Lincoln established himself as a national candidate for President by delivering an intellectually rigorous dismantling of the constitutional arguments for slavery at Cooper Union in New York City. Ever since, politicians have stood on the same podium and given immortality their best shot. It was Howard Dean's turn last week--and his Cooper Union appearance provided an inadvertent insight into the nature of his campaign...
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes then stepped up to the podium to praise Illingworth and share memories of their many years working together...