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...added that the IOP may attempt to increase competition in the future by decoupling the presidential and vice presidential positions. Bok, who currently serves as chair of the IOP Fellows Program, said she had mixed emotions upon learning Monday that she would run unopposed...
...legend in my own mind," Captain Lou Albano said in a 2007 interview. But he was also indelible in the minds of others. As the put-upon father in Cyndi Lauper's iconic music video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," Albano, who died Oct. 14 at 76, lingers in the memory of anyone who lived through the 1980s...
...Canada laid out his main points, the audience spontaneously burst into cheers and applause. Canada concluded his talk with a call to action through a reading of his poem “Take a Stand,” upon which the audience arose for a minute-long standing ovation...
...list touches upon professions that run the gamut from politics to choreography. This year’s list includes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin, activist Eboo Patel, and MIT College President Susan Hockfield...
...Richard II” is a surprisingly underrated work, often lost in the adoration heaped upon Shakespeare’s more famous plays. Yet it is one of his most vital and affecting pieces; the tale of Richard’s deposition by Henry Bolingbroke addresses the key question of what it means to be a king and what it means to overthrow one. By approaching this classic tale of Richard II with a new angle, Hyperion ambitiously turns the audience’s attention to a play worth exploring for its mix of political and personal drama...