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...night of the Soirée, the two went to Top of the Hub for dinner, and for dessert, the two had the chef’s special crème brulée. The dessert was in what Cao described as a “duck bowl thing,” and when she opened it, she found the engagement ring. The top diamond was the first diamond Wu’s father gave his mother...
When The Crimson asked Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Steven E. Ozment about whether the changes constituted censorship in 1960, he responded, “If it walks like a duck and acts like a duck, I guess it’s a duck...
...perhaps the only individual on Harvard’s campus lucky enough to meet Rosanne Cash at the Albuquerque airport, bump into Lewis Black on a train to Washington, chat up Sam Waterston at an event in New York, and convince the President of Zambia to take a Boston Duck Tour. For the past seven years, Emerson has combined similarly serendipitous celebrity encounters with his natural charm and brought a wide array of interesting and diverse speakers to the Harvard community...
...Cameron is unlikely to duck the debate, unlike Tony Blair. In 1997 Blair, who was ahead in the polls, challenged incumbent Prime Minister John Major to a debate, but Labour then claimed that negotiations over the format had broken down. Major riposted that Blair had chickened out, and the Conservatives sent a man dressed as a chicken in pursuit of Blair for the rest of the campaign. But Blair won the election. "Labour didn't really want this debate to take place," Lance Price, who worked for Blair in Downing Street, recently told the BBC. "Tony Blair was streets ahead...
...distrust politicians, according to a recent report by the Hansard Society. For many, the last straw was the revelation last year that MPs from all parties had taken advantage of a loose expenses regimen to subsidize their pay, some of them charging taxpayers for such essentials as moat cleaning, duck houses and sparkly toilet seats. Charisse can't even be bothered to cast a protest ballot for the BNP. "I don't vote," she says. "What's the point? Politicians are only out for what they can get." (See pictures of Tony Blair's 10 years as Prime Minister...