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...release to honor his fellow prisoners, while the other one wouldn't walk out of a church after 20 years of the guy spewing hatred towards America.' And the last line was, 'Character matters, especially when no one is listening.' " The ad never ran, however, because McCain ruled the topic of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the preacher of Obama's Chicago church, out of bounds shortly after he locked up the Republican nomination...
...English countryside, Nicholson's cultural history is confident in its lack of consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common...
...When you sit people down in a room and ask them to share their deepest thoughts about religion that’s asking for trouble,” said Boothe. Boothe, who attended a previous event devoted to interfaith relationships, said that a themed day on the topic should be extended to a week...
...staged a comeback for the ages, establishing the 1968 Game as the series’ most-remembered episode. As the 40th anniversary of the legendary 29-29 tie, tomorrow’s 125th playing of the Game inspires as much recollection as it does anticipation.The historic showdown is the topic of a new documentary by Kevin G. Rafferty II ’70, entitled “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29,” which premiered Wednesday night. The film portrays an underdog tale straight out of Hollywood. Playing the role of favorite to perfection, the Bulldogs seemed...
Twenty people gathered last night to discuss an unusual topic on the Harvard campus: sex workers on film. Ummni Khan, a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, led a clip screening and discussion on the roles and portrayals of sex workers in contemporary film at the Harvard College Women’s Center last night. Khan’s chosen clips—from mainstream films such as “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Pretty Woman,” “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” “Monster...