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...main attractions was the 2006 Harvard Arts Medal ceremony, where the former-choir-boy-turned-savage-satirist Christopher F. Durang ’71 was honored with the prize. Following the ceremony, John Lithgow ’67, who was last year’s commencement speaker and founded the Arts First program, led a conversation with Durang in front of a sold out audience at the Agassiz Theater. As Summers introduced the controversial playwright, he noted that both he and Durang shared the same disregard for political correctness.“The more sensitive the subject, the more provocative...
...might not be enough to get everyone's support. House Speaker Dennis Hastert added his voice to those of influential Republicans signaling they may oppose the White House's quick pick of a military officer to run CIA. "The Speaker believes they should not have a military person leading the CIA, a civilian agency," Ron Bonjean, Hastert's communications director, told TIME this evening. Bonjean was confirming the tone of comments Hastert made at an appearance in Aurora, Ill., in which Hastert praised Goss and said moving Hayden to the CIA smacked of a "power grab" by Negroponte-adding that...
...Franken: God Spoke, by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus, is most interesting in revealing the similarities between standup comedy and campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...
...subsidy program, and during one year helped to produce the Arts First Guide. Carlisle is graduating with a degree from a joint special concentration in ethnomusicology in partnership with the Folklore and Mythology department; her thesis was appropriately written on a folk festival. She will also be the Undergraduate Speaker at the June 8 Commencement. After graduation, Carlisle will stay connected to Harvard as a Masters’ Assistant in Quincy House. In addition, she hopes to work with the OFA in some sort of mentor program. Until then, this Saturday will bear the fruits of Carlisle?...
...When a speaker is made to repeat a characteristic malapropism one too many times, what usually seems like an intelligent technique for defamiliarizing us from our own speech starts to feel a bit too much like pointless and supercilious cruelty. It is one thing to have a character write “ourselfs” instead of “ourselves,” but it is a bit much to have him say of his friend’s daughter, “which that incident was, Baby Amber died...