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...break from politicians and economists, this year’s graduates will hear from a Commencement speaker who is proud to be known as a Dirty Rotten Scoundrel...
...like ‘Beat It’. I really don’t remember the names of any other songs...if you’re a non-native [English] speaker, you’re more likely to remember the words if they’re repetitive. When I was in kindergarten we used to dance and jump around to Michael Jackson. In Turkey [where I grew up] he’s just taken as a joke…as long as he doesn’t touch my child, I don’t care...
Despite KT’s upset, the Harvard team has closed the season in glory. In addition to Lux and Malumphy’s fiery finish, Klinger was the NDT’s top speaker, and Tarloff got fourth. Luxemburg came in 15th, and Malumphy, who got 23rd, bowed out of the debate game on a thrilling high note. Granted, no Copeland trophy this year (the answer to our cover from March 10 is apparently “no”), but as speculation about next season begins and Tarloff starts planning his post college years as an American playboy...
...polls, but still they have no new government. The new National Assembly met for a second time on Tuesday, with agreement on the makeup of a new executive branch as elusive as ever. So deep was the discord, in fact, that the Assembly failed even to choose a Speaker. Instead of showing signs of progress to an increasingly impatient electorate, the session portrayed the new legislature as a hung parliament. As tempers flared among legislators, TV coverage was cut off in order to stop the broadcast of an embarrassing spectacle. But the reason for the deadlock is not simply...
...Tuesday's failed assembly session highlighted the fact that the Kurdish-Shiite negotiations are not the only sticking point. There had been broad agreement that the post of Assembly Speaker would go to a Sunni Arab as part of an effort to draw that community into the new polity, but when acting President Ghazi al-Yawer declined the post, legislators could not agree on an alternative. The mortar shells exploding outside the chamber may have served as a reminder that none of the Sunni elements in the Assembly right now can be deemed representative of a community that mostly stayed...