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Sanders Theatre is a cavernous, Gothic space, where Harvard undergraduates have, through the years, come quietly to listen to tweedy poets like T.S. Eliot, John Ashbery and Seamus Heaney. But the scene on Feb. 6 was dramatically different. At 8 p.m., Jeffries, his flowing white robes and black and gold hat, ascended the stairs from backstage to loud cheers from many Blackstudents, several of whom were seated in theorchestra section. The rest of the audience,mainly white, sat in a scornful U around theorchestra, occasionally hissing at Jeffries.Outside, in the cold, 450 students protestedJeffries' presence. For the first time...
While we're at it, we might as well make our well-paid servants lend a hand to anyone willing to shell out the big dough. Force Marty Feldstein to help millionaires with their taxes. Force Seamus Heaney to edit pulp best-sellers. Force Jeff "I'm too busy saving the world to talk to undergraduates" Sachs to clean up a country that has some money, dammit. Force Med School profs to perform celebrity plastic surgery...
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney served as the master of ceremonies before the more than 1000 guests who filled Sanders Theatre...
...self-government to Northern Ireland, which has been ruled directly by London since 1972. But the hope is that the talks will eventually lead to a permanent end to the conflict, and the improving prosperity of the Catholics should help. "People want an end to all the killings," said Seamus Mallon, a leader of the liberal Social Democratic and Labour Party. Protestant extremists and the Irish Republican Army, whose political wing, Sinn Fein, was denied a seat at the talks, are expected to respond with a new wave of violence...
Second, I would like to inform Ms. Zaleskas that there are very many people who actually do celebrate Irish culture as she sees correct. For example, within this past week alone, the Harvard Irish Cultural Society has sponsored a poetry reading by Seamus Heaney, a lecture by Northern Irish politician John Hume, a presentation of the film "My Left Foot and an Irish art exhibition currently on display on the second floor of Hilles Library. In addition, traditional Irish music is broadcast every day of the year on at least one radio station in the Boston area, including Harvard...