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...discussants searched in vain for the Harvard man. Among their peers, they found “losers”—the “brilliant but socially awkward.” They found “bros”—rugby players who wear polo shirts with the collar turned up. But they never found that ideal Harvard man for which to strive...
...Alas, non. A subdued Lewis spoke only briefly, in a grateful and serious, almost stricken tone. Veteran Oscar watchers hoped in vain to glimpse the Jerry who, as the Academy Awards host 50 years ago, cavorted and mugged for nearly 20 minutes when he was told the show had run short. This year, the Oscar show ended right on time. But the odds are that, 50 years from now, no one will remember much about it - except that the underdog Slumdog...
...findings by Senator Frank Church's committee, drawn from testimony spanning 800 witnesses and thousands of pages of government documents, revealed how powerful government surveillance tools were misused against the American people. For instance, the FBI's COINTELPRO operation spent more than two decades searching in vain for communist influence in the NAACP and infiltrated domestic groups that, for example, advocated for women's rights. The Church committee's work led to creation of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and later to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act--reforms that largely held until the Bush years. (See George W. Bush...
...table." But a tragedy of this scale will not be easily explained. Says Robbins: "I personally am never going to get over losing my parents and people will never get over losing a loved one. But I think knowing that they didn't die in vain and things have changed is what will be important...
Magliozzi said that he has contacted 30 professors about the site but his attempts to get in contact with Harvard’s administration have been in vain...