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Harvard Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise took the podium at the symposium held at the Murr Center on Friday and proudly recounted Harvard’s men’s basketball history. Despite decades of Penn-Princeton dominance, the list wasn’t as short as one might have guessed (a la the pamphlet of Jewish sports legends in the movie Airplane...
WHAT WAS LADIES' DAY? One of the professors, a brilliant teacher, would call on the women in his section only on specific days, called Ladies' Days. The women would sit on the podium, facing the rest of the class, and respond to questions. It was an entertainment, it was a way to break the tension, because the men were treated very roughly too. The truth is, it was a huge put-down. But the women didn't think of it that...
...according to former White House counsel John Dean, Ziegler could have been "Deep Throat", the mysterious source who helped the Washington Post expose the scandal. "It's necessary to fudge sometimes," Ziegler once said about his work as presidential spokesman, "but I never walked out on that podium and lied...
Standing at Memorial Church’s guilded-eagle podium, Prital S. Kadakia ’06 read John Gillespie Magee Jr.’s poem “High Flight” in honor of the dead astronauts...
Dole's graceful words made it all the more jolting when Lott, who is scheduled to resume his old job as majority leader when the Senate convenes next month, took the podium and declared, "I want to say this about my state: when Strom Thurmond ran for President, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either...