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...expectations are not entirely unfounded. Last year, he directed Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” for the Winthrop House Drama Society, with unexpected success.“We sold out all five shows,” he recalls with pride. “We were the first House play to make a significant profit. We made $900, which is sort of really unheard-of.”Unheard-of, indeed—especially given that it was the first show he’d ever directed, and the first show many...
...hate penguins. I used to pride myself on being an animal lover. I used to greet my conservative friends with diatribes against arctic oil drilling. I used to laud the proud Alaskan moose and the Pacific seal at City Hall every Earth Day. But no more. Damn penguins. Two hours of penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke...
...after announcing his resignation, University President Lawrence H. Summers was already joking about his stormy tenure before a captivated Dunster House audience during a fireside chat. “I have had a shorter term than many other Harvard presidents, but as a consequence of that, I can take pride in the fact that I am the only Harvard president who has seen Harvard beat Yale in every year,” Summers said. Clutching the microphone stand, he responded to an hour’s worth of questions from the packed dining hall, in what he called...
...deal, selling it to the U.S. Congress and to India?s parliament won?t be simple. Many in the U.S. fear that the agreement undermines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which India has not signed. And in India, where the nuclear program is a deep source of national pride and the ultimate defense against nuclear neighbor Pakistan, there is considerable unease about international inspectors scrutinizing India?s prized program...
...smart but unwise, fun but prone to poor choices. However, beyond first impressions, it is clear that she carries herself as a woman. In a pressed button down shirt, she sits confidently with friends from Wellesley and Harvard. She talks of her family, her accomplishments, and her school with pride. She informs one of her male Harvard friends, whom she met through ROTC, that she has decided to try to run the Boston Marathon in three and a half hours instead of four. She talks about her days playing soccer and how she is learning Aikido. Powerless this woman...