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...what they hope to bring to Harvard.Ted BarronTed Barron, film scholar and critic, was the Senior Programmer of the Harvard Film Archives from 2002-2007. He has served on the juries of film festivals including the Newport International Film Festival and is an editor for “The Straddler,” an interdisciplinary culture journal.The Harvard Crimson: How does it feel to be back at Harvard?Ted Barron: It’s actually kind of strange and very nice to be back in the Carpenter Center after having worked there for so long...
Parsons is a consummate straddler of worlds and builder of consensus. Born in a working-class Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, he rose to become a lawyer, a bank CEO and a moderate Rockefeller Republican. He describes himself as a "lunch-pail guy"--albeit one who owns a vineyard in Tuscany and who celebrated his promotion with a Cohiba Esplendido cigar and a $400 bottle of 1963 Taylor port...
Flaherty echoes Lawson and Murphy on the subject of Pat Horton, adding his own emphasis. "The biggest case for decriminalization was made by the D.A. from Oregon," Flaherty says. Publicly a fence-straddler at the present time, Flaherty is considered a closet supporter of the bill by both Murphy and Oteri, and Murphy includes the South Boston representative among the fourteen members on the 21-man panel who will probably vote for a favorable report...
...stake; one moderate name that seems bandied about is Chen Hsi-lin, commander of the Peking military region. Hua Kuo-feng has managed to elude being tied into either parcel so far, and the press seems to have settled for a draw, granting him the position of issue straddler and compromiser: Fox Butterfield of The New York Times suggests Hua can be counted "a good representative of a second generation of Chinese leader, a post-Maoist...
This is a main reason, Sunbelter Reagan tells the delegates, that he is the man who can defeat Carter. Reagan is eager to debate the Georgian; he believes he can expose Carter as a straddler on the issues. "Carter is brilliantly clever at obscuring," says Reagan. "When you really pin him down, he is not much different from Hubert Humphrey, just a quieter version. Carter has told us he's going to balance the budget. I want to price out that Democratic platform and see what all those promises are going to cost. I'll uncover...