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...We’ve celebrated the 100 year anniversary of HBS, Iceland’s bankruptcy, Octoberfest in the beer houses of Munich, and more recently Queen’s Day in Amsterdam—name a national holiday and we’ve celebrated it,” Chang said. “Therefore we found it only fitting to have this Class Day to celebrate and showcase the great HBS class...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaker Pushes For Creativity at Business School Class Day | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Arizona had previously observed the national Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday but had rescinded the holiday in 1986 under Governor Evan Mecham. Then-Governor J. Fife Symington III ’68, when he came into office in 1991, refused to bring the holiday back to the state despite passionate appeals from a small, but determined, group of activists within the state. Initially, Senator John S. McCain supported and defended Symington in his refusal, but as the political winds changed due to boycotts and public outcry so did McCain, especially once it became clear that Arizona stood to lose...

Author: By Carl L. Miller | Title: Razing Arizona | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...Arizona was in line to host a very lucrative little football game called the Super Bowl. The National Football League got involved and told Arizona to honor the holiday, threatening that “if anything was done to dishonor the memory of Dr. King,” the committee would vote to rescind the awarding of the Super Bowl to the state of Arizona. Even McCain’s midstream flip-a-roo was not enough; Arizona voters struck down the holiday, and the NFL ultimately changed the site of the 1993 Super Bowl from Tempe, Ariz. to Pasadena...

Author: By Carl L. Miller | Title: Razing Arizona | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...stories from the Christmascues especially are so heartwarming that they would be a welcome addition to anyone’s holiday experience. Piling into school buses on a cold winter’s night, the members of all three Holden Choirs drive the half-hour it takes to reach Marvin’s house in Lexington, Massachusetts. There, they bask in the glow of the fire that Marvin tends (carefully, as if it were the fourth Holden chorus), drink eggnog, and converse with his oft-referenced wife Polly...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jameson Marvin | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Wesman nearly decided against sending his film in because the post office was closed for a holiday...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Thesis Film Accepted to Cannes | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

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