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...Socially and artistically, the Houses were flourishing. In 1951, for example, Adams House put on Johan Strauss' operetta "Gypsy Baron." Students in Dunster House--known as "Funsters"--staged Donizetti's "Anna Bolena." In Eliot House, the play that year was Ben Johnson's "Every Man in His Honor." After selling out "H.M.S. Pinafore" the year before, Winthrop House put on Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeoman of the Guard...
With its seventh straight championship, Cabot broke a record previously held by Kirkland House, which took home six consecutive Strauss Cups in the early 1960s...
...Officers arrested Vaughn Sneed, 26, of Cambridge, for trespassing in Strauss Hall after a security guard had called HUPD for assistance...
...taint of scandal changed those odds. With his popularity surging, Strauss-Kahn resigned under suspicion of pocketing $97,000 for bogus legal work before his 1997 appointment as minister. Though that payment was later proved legitimate, Strauss-Kahn faces trial in May on charges of backdating documents to prove his innocence in the case. Then last September Strauss-Kahn watched as a surreal scandal plaguing conservatives turned against him. The affair involved a videotaped confession by a since-deceased operative detailing an illegal financing scheme in the early 1980s and '90s allegedly run by President Jacques Chirac's conservative Rally...
...seems unlikely Strauss-Kahn risks worse than minor charges - and embarrassment - from the scandals, though his return to government before the elections still seems remote. His continuing popularity keeps alive the possibility of appointment as Prime Minister - but to attain that post, Strauss-Kahn must first help his Socialist-led coalition to win next year's electoral battle...