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...Cultures is a requirement? Henry Cabot Lodge, noted isolationist and member of the Class of 1871, would not be thrilled. “Harvard students are learning about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America’s premier institution of higher learning? Balderdash!” Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad! As part...
...ought to keep its place at the forefront of intellectual discourse by bringing to Cambridge speakers who revile us, even as they challenge us. The University lived up to this part of this mission when, in 1959, it invited Fidel Castro, then newly installed as Cuba’s premier, to speak to a crowd of 6,000 at the Dillon Field House. It did so again by bringing Mohammed Khatami here yesterday...
...that he found the CEO's role confining at times. And it has been clear for some time that he wanted out. In a press conference a year ago, he obliquely acknowledged that he had held discussions about a possible job at Ford with two of the industry's premier executives: Carlos Ghosn of Renault-Nissan and Dieter Zetsche of DaimlerChrysler. (Bill Ford says "the list was half that long...
...feelings against the central government in Islamabad. Baluchistan was in the grips of a low-level insurgency, with tribesmen demanding greater autonomy for the province. Just days before my trip, a roadside bomb in the Baluch fishing village of Gwadar had killed five Chinese engineers working on Pakistan's premier development project: a massive new port. So I was surprised to see children in Gwadar playing cricket in replicas of the uniforms of Pakistan's national team. In fact, the only hostility I encountered was from aggressive undercover security agents who questioned me rudely and threatened to seize my camera...
...this were a perfect world, Martin Short would have been a big Broadway star long before now. On TV he was the only performer who managed to make the jump between the two premier satirical sketch shows of the '70s and early '80s, SCTV and Saturday Night Live,, and he made the usual transition to less-inspired film roles. But it wasn't until he starred on Broadway in 1993's The Goodbye Girl, an underrated musical with Marvin Hamlisch's best post-Chorus Line score, that he showed how effortlessly his lithe, smallish body could take over a Broadway...