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Huntington, who spoke on his latest book, "The Clash of Civilizations," was the first speaker in a series of lectures to be sponsored by the Wood-bridge Society, a group that tries to foster dialogue between international students and other members of the Harvard community, according to Manjari S. Mahajan '98, president of the Society...
Huntington's book is based on an article of the same name published in the Foreign Policy Journal three years ago, according to Roderick MacFarquhar, Williams professor of history and political science, who introduced the speaker...
...hold his cards when it comes to a negotiation." Raines and Bowles wanted to show more flexibility early, on the theory that it might help soften up the opposition. A few days after the election Raines even went so far as to approach G.O.P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue. "I don't think it was being naive," Raines contends. "I think it was setting a tone...
...unfamiliar pairing will be up in the balcony, where Gingrich's wife Marianne will be sitting with country star Travis Tritt, Joan Shalikashvili, wife of the general, and...Jesse Jackson. Last week Newt extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech to the House, where the Speaker addressed the need for racial equality, ways to combat drug use and help for the District of Columbia--all issues dear to Jesse's heart...
...mother, like almost every other mother alive today, still remembers exactly where she was when she heard. She was in her tenth grade math class on Nov. 22, 1963 when a voice over the loud-speaker announced that President John F. Kennedy '40 had been assassinated. Her teacher, who at the beginning of the term had joked that the class would be spared homework "only if the President were shot," assigned homework nonetheless...