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Elise X. Liu ’11, a Social Studies concentrator from Cabot House, was awarded the 111th Annual Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize last night at the Harvard Faculty Club. The Wendell Prize, established in 1899, is awarded each year to a Harvard sophomore who exhibits extraordinary academic achievement and contributes to the Harvard community. About 40 guests, comprised of faculty members including Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67, and several former Wendell Prize winners, attended the reception. The award requires an extensive application process. Students who obtain a GPA of at least 3.67 in their...
...imperious King clown (Gordon White) leads his vigorous aides-de-camp (Christian Fitzharris and Jimmy Slonina) strutting through the crowd before the performance and, during it, dragging volunteer victims on stage for some not-so-innocent merriment. In one prize bit, White is seen fainting from exhaustion and Fitzharris leans over him to give him the breath of life; as the kiss gets more amatory, Slonina avidly cranks an invisible camera and cheap disco music fills the air - it's the first Cirque de Porno. There's also a cast member in a yellow shaggy-dog suit who trots...
...though a sestet can be any six-lined stanza or poem, with “Sestets,” the latest volume of poetry by Charles Wright, it is helpful to think of that one. As the 20th volume for the poet—a Pulitzer and Griffin Prize winner—“Sestets” marks a high point in the progress of a style of contemplation that Wright has made his own over the years.Although Wright has always shown a skill for distilling an experience and recording its essence, his “Sestets?...
Kristol, William • decidedly unbrilliant work of is somehow deemed worthy of a $250,000 Bradley Prize "for his outstanding achievements in a wide range of activities" - like writing a year's worth of some of the stupidest columns ever to sully the New York Times op-ed page...
...embrace. A ceramic fragment supposedly mirrors the cleft chin of the rebel general Mark Antony - leading Hawass to speculate that it is the Roman's own death mask. Archaeologists already dug up the mummies of ten nobles around the site, a sign, perhaps, that a more regal prize dwells within. Using ground-penetrating radar, they have spied out three further subterranean passageways which they believe could lead to the grave. "If this tomb is found," Hawass told TV reporters as they set about their dig this week, "it will be one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century...