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...attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching for the bayonets, the audience stomps and hoots when Moulitsas takes the stage. He smiles benignly and begins: ?My name is Markos and I run a site called Daily Kos - maybe you?ve heard...
Whether MacFarlane’s speech will resemble the show’s content remains to be seen. After what some considered a vulgar Class Day speech by Sacha Baron Cohen—known by the stage name Ali G.—in 2004, concern about the content of Class Day speeches rose...
...again—back to Kenya. While researching social changes among Kikuyu women from the pre-colonial period to independence for her thesis, the Princeton senior learned of a detention camp for women during the 1950s Mau Mau Revolt, a failed insurgency movement that set the stage for Kenyan independence. But there was no secondary literature. Elkins handed in her thesis and decided that if she ever went back to graduate school, she would investigate these detention camps.Following a brief stint on Wall Street, Elkins arrived in the Yard to begin her graduate studies in history and the search...
...formal power, they reasoned a representative body for all undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring picnic. Of late the assembly has grown even more timid; last week it refused to endorse the candlelight march against aid to El Salvador—as positive a student effort as this University has seen in three years—for fear...
Jess R. Burkle ’06 is a veteran of the Harvard stage, but even so, he won’t feel adequately prepared when he gets behind the podium to give today’s male Ivy Oration. And that’s the way he likes it. “I have a tendency to improv in public speaking, which can sometimes lead to disastrous consequences,” says Burkle, leaning back in a chair in Quincy courtyard. “I feel like as long as I don’t make a racial slur...