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...were chosen on the basis of academic merit, the Soviet delegates were chosen largely on the basis of their allegiance to the USSR and ability to champion Soviet political ideals, according to former Davis Center for Eurasian Studies Associate Director Professor Marshall I. Goldman. “The University went out of its way to insist that participants in the exchange did not have anything to do with the CIA or the State Department,” Marshall said, adding that the Russian government used U.S.-USSR exchange programs as opportunities to spread propaganda.Notwithstanding, the Russian delegates received a hearty...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crossing the Iron Curtain | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...that attract. Mancuso, 24, and Donahue, 22—who got engaged last month after almost a year of dating—are both vegetarians who enjoy exercising, listen to similar music, and say they rarely argue. The couple met through a study held at William James Hall and went on their first date last May. Over dinner at an Indian restaurant, the pair bonded over their shared taste in music. Mancuso, who had spent the past few years playing 300 nights a year with his band, GBD Band, admired Donahue’s Beatles t-shirt and anecdote about...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Emily D. Donahue ’09 and Greg J. Mancuso | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...acquire the MTA land.“Big Al Velluci: he enjoyed pulling Harvard’s nose, and he was great at it,” said Frederick W. Byron ’59, who also reported on the Bennett Street Yard acquisition controversy for The Crimson.Vellucci went on to serve three terms as mayor of Cambridge in the 1970s and 1980s. He made a name for himself by demanding that Harvard make a “payment in lieu of taxes.” In February of 1959, the Cambridge City Council had considered, but ultimately voted down...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Begins Battle for MTA Site | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...path. Rinehart and Nightingale finally arrived at the monument, which was surrounded by approximately 10 school buses and a hoard of tourists. “One of the main reasons why I thought Bunker Hill would be such a great place to propose is because the first time we went nobody was there,” Rinehart said with a slight smile on his face. “And so I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll see how this goes.’” After waiting for the tourists to thin...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leslie E. Nightingale ’09 and Daniel J. Rinehart ’09 | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

Lady Marina A.S. Vaizey ’59 did not plan on becoming an art critic—after all when she went to Radcliffe College, she only took one class on art and graduated a Medieval History and Literature concentrator. She kind of fell into the profession. “I became an art critic through a series of accidents and coincidences,” said Vaizey, now a celebrated art critic who has written for the British newspapers, the Financial Times and the Sunday Times. The Radcliffe alumna says her career started in an Oxford gallery, when...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Marina A.S. Vaizey | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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