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...quickly becoming a weekly ritual at Harvard. But this late ’60s scene is happening almost three decades too early. The date is April 18, 1940. A year later, the Pearl Harbor bombing and the country’s entry into the Second World War would remind the United States and its citizens of the impossibility of the American bubble, and Harvard would be no exception. The debate over the war foreshadowed the radical transformation that Harvard would undergo after Dec. 7, 1941. By the war’s conclusion, the change would be undeniable: traditionally elitist Harvard...
...general pain in the ass. The things he did, the things we do - not as brilliantly as the early Woodward and Bernstein, not as well as Johnny in full flight, but just as hungrily, just as passionately. Johnny was a lucky man; his memorial service today served to remind those of us in the tribe how very lucky...
...Bush will, indeed, leave office before Chavez. And the Venezuelan president likes to remind audiences that Bill Clinton was a man he respected. So, if the White House reverts to the Democrats in 2008, Chavez may have more trouble rousing his base with anti-U.S. rhetoric...
...open up in India - either on their own or in partnership with local schools. "The time has come to recognize the right of every qualified student to pursue higher education," Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Minister said last week. "Millions of children are still out of school and that should remind us of the unfinished task before...
...climactic speech, in which he told Kennedy School students that they were free to go, was also highly staged, and even involved a number of takes—Colbert had difficulty remembering the monologue he was supposed to deliver. While laughing, he repeatedly asked a crew-member to remind him what his lines were. COMEDIC TO THE CORE? Student reception of the event was overwhelmingly positive, even before it began. According to Corcoran, tickets for the event, which were free and had been distributed via an online lottery, had been going for as much...