Word: politico
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Alyssa became a wonky politico in the weeks before writing an exposé on Harvard political partisans. A consummate writer and interviewer, Alyssa never shies away from being thorough. And with her deadpan story pitches at writers’ meetings, how could FM not bring this talented reporter into the fold...
...than the undeniable costs of a more discriminatory and insular Japan. With its beguiling culture, intriguing history, and cutting-edge electronic innovations, Japan has much to offer the world. The world also has much to offer Japan, including an infusion of fresh ideas about how to reform an ossified politico-economic order largely unchanged since the early years of the Cold War. Indeed, within a few years Japan may desperately need foreigners not only to visit, but even to stay. With a plummeting birth rate, rapidly aging population, and lingering structural problems in the financial sphere, Japan?...
...interesting in revealing the similarities between standup comedy and campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...
...Viva Zapatero!, which won a 15-20 min. ovation at last year?s Venice Film Festival, was Guzzanti?s immediate revenge on Berlusconi. Her ultimate revenge came this week, when the mogul-politico finally acknowledged the defeat he suffered in last month?s election...
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Joel D. Kaplan ’91—the replacement of Bush’s right-hand-man Karl Rove—was an active politico during his time at Harvard. But what is less easily anticipated is that Kaplan’s political party of choice was the Harvard Dems—he served as a Harvard delegate to the 1990 local State Democratic Conventions...