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...which correspondents from predominantly male newspapers dressed in drag and performed parodies about state politics.“I protested, and it was quickly changed, but I still refused to be in the silly show,” writes Greenhouse, Harvard Law School’s 2006 Class Day speaker, in an e-mail.It wasn’t the first time Greenhouse felt the sting of gender discrimination.Greenhouse, who grew up in Hamden, Conn., and was editor of her high school newspaper, joined The Crimson in her freshman year of college. She was frequently barred from the surrounding all-male Houses?...
Neil K. Mehta ’06, a second class marshal who heads this year’s class day speaker committee, said that he has relayed many seniors’ requests for MacFarlane to speak in the voice of Stewie during his speech today at 2 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. Stewie, who often makes sexual jokes and talks about killing his mother, is one of the most offensive characters on the cartoon show...
Last June, class marshal Caleb I. Franklin ’05 told The Crimson that the Harvard administration advised the Senior Class Committee to avoid selecting speakers who might offend older Class Day attendees. Some speculated that the choice of NBC news anchor Tim Russert for last year’s Class Day speaker may have been a reaction to the choice of Cohen the year before. Every Class Day speaker beginning in 2002 had been a comedian before Russert was selected...
Mehta said that the committee considered a wide range of speakers. He said that he and other members discussed MacFarlane early on as a good choice for a speaker, but the committee’s final list of options did not only include comedians...
...think the chances are excellent," said Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro. The No. 2 Democrat in House, Whip Steny Hoyer, says some members of the GOP have already been coming up to him and saying they only wish he was in line to become Speaker rather than House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who disagrees with Republicans on even more issues than Hoyer. In a meeting with a handful of lawmakers and the Australian Prime Minister, California Republican David Drier, one of the closest allies to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, accidentally referred to "Speaker Pelosi," leading to chuckles from both Hastert...