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...biology—arrived at the scene that Hays made her appearance. Models gathered to receive instructions while the designers took their seats among adoring fans and fashionistas. After a confusing explanation of “walk away from the judges, pose, walk towards the judges, pose, and then sit down” (repeated thrice for the sake of the models) M. “MC” Aidan Kelly ’08 gave the cue for the music—and the show—to begin...
...walking directions were difficult, it was nothing to the strenuous questions that the judges and audience posed to the designers. Xia, unable to sit in her paper skirt, stepped forward as Morton explained the metropolicity of her outfit. She used found materials—newspapers recycled from the Crimson—to illustrate the gritty underbelly of city life. But the creation had its drawbacks: under interrogation, Morton admitted that the dress wasn’t very practical...
...Thus, we sit through an unseasonably mild winter in Cambridge last year and praise the effects of global warming, while the dominoes of climate change keep falling on people throughout America and the world...
...Today, University President Drew G. Faust has her work cut out for her to match the eloquence of those 11-year-olds. Behind Faust, on the steps of Memorial Church, will sit the last three men to speak on this occasion: Summers, in 2001; Neil L. Rudenstine, in 1991; and Derek C. Bok, in 1971. Each brought his own style and purpose to the inaugural stage, melding his vision for the institution with the weight of Harvard’s history and the tensions of the moment...
...down on the pro-democracy demonstrations, the small monasteries that line both sides of the road are mostly locked and empty, while wooden barricades and bales of rusted barbed wire that police used to seal off Shwedagon are stacked on the pavement. Police and soldiers armed with automatic weapons sit on stools outside the mostly silent monasteries. More are stationed at the entrance of the hilltop temple, the spiritual center of Burmese Buddhism. As many as a thousand monks lived and studied at these small monasteries in the shadow of Shwedagon. But troops now far outnumber the handful of monks...