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...double triumph for Calderón. His performance outclassed Mexico's usual disaster response (after the 1985 earthquake, the public basically had to rescue itself while officials tried to underplay the casualties). It also helped Calderón show he cares about poor people in the south, the home turf of his populist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who still tours the country calling himself the "legitimate President...
...very vocal students and visitors who filed into Lowell Lecture Hall on Friday night buzzing with excitement were quite a departure from the room’s usual bleary-eyed inhabitants—but then again, the night ahead of them was a far cry from lecture. Apollo Night, hosted by the Black Students Association (BSA), is a nod to the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, where audience members take control of the show during amateur nights. The crowd’s reaction dictates all—offending acts are booed off-stage, and the winner is voted in by enthusiastic...
...fact, bigger and better than they are at home.At the end of the day, some international students have it easy. Plenty of Harvard graduates from sub-Saharan Africa return home to make immense contributions to countries where their expertise is desperately needed. They may not tread the usual path to New York high society, but they leave college assured that they are making good on their education. In a sense, they transcend the usual expectations; for them, Harvard never was Times Square with training wheels—it was a repository of experience and expertise that might be transported home...
...Nguyen, it was business as usual...
...that all three media formats have faced. The advent of 24-hour news coverage means that the old news formats just don’t cut it like they used to. The Internet has the advantage of being able to incorporate all three media formats without any of the usual time delays—YouTube is now the most effective town crier. This competition has led to enormous shifts, with many stations and papers being forced out of business or being bought by large media conglomerates that have consolidated the media industry (think the Wall Street Journal).As these media...