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...curved knives Lindsay M. Liles ’10 is brandishing glint in the wintry sunlight that streams into the common room of her Mather quint. She locks their hooked ends together, and for a moment it looks like she is going to swing them over her head in lethal, long-handled circles. But then she puts the knives down. She wants to show off the thick sparkly ribbon she sewed in high school, as well as the sequined ballroom dance costume she just finished altering. “I love glitter,” she says. ALTER EGOLiles...
...survivors of Sept. 11. As part of the OFA-sponsored program, Allen participated in a “Musical Conversation” moderated by Tom Everett, the director of Harvard Jazz Bands. Her residency culminates Saturday in a concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands in tribute to famed swing composer Mary Lou Williams. As Everett puts it, “We are sort of piggyback riding on a Music Department program here.” Serving as the musical director of the Mary Lou Williams Collective and having portrayed her in the 1996 movie “Kansas City...
Close to the end of John McCain's most recent swing through New Hampshire this week, reporters and the candidate took their usual places at the back of the "Straight Talk Express." McCain was doing phone interviews, voice raised a bit over the roar of the bus. It took us a while to realize we were not moving. "We're off schedule," explained an aide. McCain did a sort of fake lunge toward his staffer - a full body, sarcastic version of "why-I-oughta" - before she continued, "We're ahead of schedule." McCain, whose exaggerated gestures sometimes suggest...
...second crucial difference is demographic. By 1960 there were 35 to 40 million Catholics in the U.S., strategically settled in a dozen swing states from the Northeast across the Midwest. Those voters had in many cases gone for Eisenhower. Kennedy wanted to bring them home to the Democrats. Playing the religion card might have helped Richard Nixon in southern and border states, where he was already strong, but would have cost him in swing industrial states that he badly needed to win, so Nixon made a point of telling his people not to raise the religious issue (a plea that...
...Like Kennedy and his Catholics, Romney presumably has a lock on the Mormon vote. But that bloc is much smaller, perhaps five or six million strong. And instead of being concentrated in swing states, Mormons reside largely in intermountain states that for the most part are already solidly Republican. In the key states where Romney faces an early test, he isn't likely to find many Mormons, no matter what he says on Thursday...