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...remembers getting a request for a book of poems that a groom could use at a wedding ceremony...
...Cianflone ’07 addressed the council to petition on behalf of Falldown Films—a student group focused on film production at Harvard—after the council’s Finance Committee recommended that the organization receive none of its $20,000 request. In his speech to the council, Cianflone requested $5,000 of “start-up funding” to purchase a camera for filming...
Cianflone—who presented a petition with 300 signatures of people supporting the organization—justified the large request by citing the absence of film on campus and the potential involvement of “hundreds of students” in a project...
Despite the professed support for Falldown’s project, many council members derided Cianflone’s request. One council member suggested allocating one dollar to Falldown...
...modern campaign: focus groups, photo ops and brutally negative ads. She resists their suggestions as "phony American tricks." (One of numerous ironies is that many former subjects of the "evil empire" are more idealistic about democracy than the Yanks.) But eventually she accedes even to the brazen request that Yeltsin give a speech sober. "Perhaps we should schedule the speech early in the day," she offers...