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Chris: Well, I can’t speak for the group, but most of them were in on it. Six months ago, I was driving with friends, and they had satellite radio. So they were listening to Playboy Radio, which had an advice show playing, so I thought, “Why not call in and try to get through?” So I got through, and pretended to have girlfriend who wanted to do some pretty unnecessary things to me. Eventually they figured out I was pulling their leg, and I got kicked...
...what Dr. Gawande has to say...from the Obama Administration, to the editors at the New Yorker, to all of the readers of his books,” Heath said. She added that “that is why we thought it would be perfect for Dr. Gawande to speak...
Melissa Goodman, a staff attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Program, took on Habib’s case and filed a lawsuit on behalf of the American organizations that had invited Habib to speak. U.S. citizens have a legal right to talk to foreign scholars unless there is a “facially legitimate and bona fide reason” for the scholar to be prohibited from entering the country, according to Goodman...
...happens all the time, even today. I step back and I can’t believe that I’m here at my alma mater being recognized by my own, so to speak. When I look at the power and the prestige and the accomplishments of my fellow panelists, I’m just really grateful. It’s all very surreal...
...Things They Carried,” but this Pulitzer Prize finalist has lost little of his mass appeal. On March 25, O’Brien returned to Cambridge—he once studied in Harvard’s Ph.D. program in government—to speak in celebration of the book’s 20th anniversary. O’Brien’s speech at First Parish Church Meetinghouse elicited both laughter and tears as he discussed the lasting influence of a work written, as he said at the event, “to help readers feel something...