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...think there’s a tendency to want to portray them as the UC insiders—that’s not the case at all,” says Alicia Menendez ’05, a member of the duo’s campaign team. “They are just as disenchanted with things that go on here at Harvard and they have a real vision for what Harvard can be and will be under their presidency...
...Saudi Arabia's harshest critics in the media and on Capitol Hill have sought to portray the kingdom's rulers as intimately involved with al-Qaeda terrorism, although some of the evidence offered to support these claims is far from convincing - the suggestion that Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington sent money to 9/11 hijackers, for example, turns out to be based on a charitable check she wrote to a woman who, unbeknownst to the princess, had signed it over to a man who made brief loan to two of the hijackers without knowing their terrorist...
...from 1967, is a giddy delight?no mean feat, considering that each of the film's three singing, dancing heroines (Cheng Pei-pei, Lily Ho and Chin Ping) loses the man she loves. Under the Japanese director Inoue Umetsugu, the girls soldier on gorgeously, through a dozen songs that portray the territory as a Paris with sweet sauce: "Hong Kong is a lovers' paradise," these Chinese chanteuses warble, "Love, like mist, covers blemishes...
...their emissions as long as the manufacturing plant overall remains below limits. In addition, changes to the Emissions Calculation Test Methodology will allow factories to use the highest-polluting 24-month period in the preceding decade as a measure of their actual emissions—making it easy to portray future emissions as a reduction, even if they are actually an increase from current levels...
Kaczynski came to Harvard as a shy working-class 16-year-old boy from a Chicago suburb. What we most directly portray in the play is Kaczynski’s participation in the Murray experiment, a three-year personality experiment in which he was a paid subject. After writing extensive autobiographies and voluminous ruminations on many topics, subjects in their third year were interrogated, their ideas and beliefs challenged in (by most accounts) combative and hostile sessions called “dyad sessions.” Subjects then watched footage of their responses under pressure, and were asked to comment...