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...This strategy was never stretched to its limits until 2004, however, when a blue-blooded Yale graduate and oil executive who pulled strings to duck Vietnam was cast as the anti-elitist, the living, breathing Good Ol’ Boy to John Kerry’s pharaonic mummy. A September poll that year showed that—war be damned—nearly 60 percent of undecided voters would prefer having a beer with Bush. Pundits pounced, and Republican staffers rejoiced: The plan had worked...
11/20/04: Harvard beats Yale at The Game, taking the Ivy League Championship for the first time in seven years and maintaining its unbeaten record for the season...
...Although the self-motivated nature of drama at Harvard originally pushed Daniel R. Pecci ’09 to choose it over Yale, he said he now wishes he had more advice from professionals. “If you don’t have the practical, it’s just theory and you’re not improving the craft,” Pecci said. Pecci, who wrote a play that opened in Berlin this past winter and serves on Faust’s task force, said he hopes to see the University move toward a dramatic arts concentration...
...said that it has taken “a leave-no-stone-unturned approach to where we are,” meeting with everyone from students to museum staffers to faculty from key academic departments. In addition, the task force has studied the arts at other universities such as Yale and Princeton...
Also receiving degrees will be spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan ’58; Yale developmental psychologist James P. Comer; Princeton art historian Wen C. Fong; Columbia neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel ’52; federal judge Damon J. Keith, women’s historian Gerda Lerner, Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy, University of Chicago biologist Janet D. Rowley, author J. K. Rowling, and former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson...