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Miller entered the Harvard theater scene full-throttle, launching a play during his freshman fall that he’d co-written the previous summer. Meant to inspire people to vote, “2004: An Election Year Odyssey” production was faced with a rather inflexible timeline. As he tackled this project, Miller revealed the initiative that would become characteristic of his endeavors at Harvard...
...School graduate Barack Obama is favored by a margin of more than two-to-one in the Democratic presidential race. The online survey, administered to 2,452 young people around the country, found that 70 percent of youth between the ages of 18 and 24 who plan to vote for a Democratic candidate in the November general election prefer Obama, whereas 30 percent favor New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. The margin has dramatically increased since an October IOP poll, in which Democratic primary voters between the ages of 18 and 24 gave Obama a slight advantage over Clinton: 38 percent...
...meekly accepting the verdict of the electorate. Last Friday, a South African newspaper reported that Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos, a longtime Mugabe ally, was ready to send his troops to the Zimbabwean ruler's aid if necessary. And if the results announced on Tuesday require a runoff vote, the violence and intimidation currently being meted out on opposition supporters could keep voters away from the polls - and yet steal victory from Tsvangirai...
...Whether people in rural Pennsylvania are “apolitical” or not, whether they foolishly vote against their economic interests or not, are huge issues that Obama and the nation should confront. But what interests me more about Marx’s conception of idiocy is its applicability to life here at Harvard: Maybe “Idiots on the Charles” is a better nickname for 21st century Cambridge than “Kremlin...
With slogans like "Tempelhof saved the Berliners, now Berliners can save Tempelhof," those who support the airport are expected to win the referendum. But its results are not binding, and Wowereit vows to press ahead with plans to shut the runways down no matter what the outcome of the vote...