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...maintained its customary top position, while the women’s team climbed four spots from sixth into second. The polls reflect Harvard’s strong showing at Singlehanded Nationals last weekend, particularly in the men’s division, where co-captain Clay Bischoff and freshman Vince Porter finished second and third...
...anything, it's power. Former denizens contend that the placement of offices around the President's Oval forms a power chart similar to the old Kremlin reviewing stand, where Stalin's rankings of his Politburo members were measured by how close to him they stood during parades. Roger Porter, who served as an aide to three Presidents in the West Wing, notes that Homeland Security head Tom Ridge is only a few steps down the hall from President Bush's office--"a good measure of the President's priorities...
...verbal alter ego, recalls that at the crucial moment of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, J.F.K. asked him and Bobby Kennedy to go to Sorensen's office to work out a reply to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's threatening letter, a response credited with defusing the nuclear danger. Porter, who is a professor at Harvard, worked out George H.W. Bush's education goals in his cramped, second-story office with then Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...
Eschewing the customary audition process, Jarcho chose some actors whom she has used before and some theatrical novices. Sarah E. Porter ’03, who plays Bess, has been in two other Jarcho productions, and when the director asked her to come along for a third ride, says Porter, “I was thrilled. Julia’s writing is so smart. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s poetry set to motion.” Lisa C. Lightbody ’03 has no theatrical experience, but Jarcho says...
...Porter feels that “being in the moment” is a great way to do theater. She explains that if she played Bess any other way, it would be obviously false. It’s very easy to get carried away with long speeches, she says, but thinking about them as everyday speech allows her to be natural. “Being in character never jived with me anyhow,” Porter concludes...