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...your average Harvard student traded spring break sun-worshipping for response papers and problem sets under the dreary early-April skies of Cambridge, the 14 young women of The Harvard Crimson Dance Team (CDT) fouetted their way to a fifth-place national finish in a band shell overlooking Daytona Beach. Performing to a Hollywood-themed medley—including Madonna’s “Hollywood,” Missy Elliott’s “Shake Your Pom Pom,” and Prima J’s “Rock Star?...
...hall. Each tasty sample of holiday food was accompanied by a conversation about the traditions of one of the many religions represented on campus.The Harvard College Interfaith Council organized this culinary evening as the Kickoff Festival for its celebration of the first-ever National Interfaith Awareness Week during mid-April. By collaborating with 12 religious groups and the Harvard Secular Society, the Council works to foster interfaith dialogue among the more than 20 faith-based organizations on campus. A COUNCIL IS BORNThe Interfaith Council was officially established in 2004 as a purely discussion-based group, but didn?...
...CORRECTIONS The April 29 story, "Poetic Icon Returns for Reading," misspelled the name of the lecture series and the place where it was held. The lecture is named after Maurine and Robert Rothschild, not Maureen and Robert Rothschild, and was held at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, not the Schlesinger Library...
...evening of April 30, 1973, Richard Nixon addressed the nation live from the Oval Office in an attempt to manage the growing Watergate scandal. It was a difficult speech for Nixon: He announced the resignations of three Administration officials, including Attorney General Richard Kleindienst - but Nixon nonetheless tried to sound optimistic. As he approached the end of his speech, Nixon noted that he had "exactly 1,361 days remaining" in his term and wanted them "to be the best days in America's history." "Tonight," he continued, "I ask for your prayers to help me in everything that...
...poster boy of the reimagined black church is Martin Luther King, Jr. "King said America suffered from a 'congenital disease' and that disease is racism," notes Eddie Glaude, Princeton professor of religion. He says that King's speech against the Vietnam War, delivered at Riverside Church in April 1967, was not a feel-good speech. "It was a passionate cry to speak to these enormous problems that were linked to America's imperialism and militarism, and what he saw as the evils of capitalism." By that point int his career, King had been banned from Lyndon Johnson's White House...