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...this gossip and openness, it would be pretty easy to make a name for myself… right?Luckily, I had my trusty Salada teabags to help me out. After a popcorn chicken-filled lunch, I came across this line: “Before a man can find himself famous, he must first find himself.” Eureka! I thought. If I wanted to become famous at Harvard, I had to first construct a killer Harvard identity. Perhaps I could be a final club-hopping heiress—Sachi Ezura, heir to the Meineke Tire and Brake Pad fortune?...
...Reverend Samuel Gilman class of 1811 had written his most famous hymn in honor of his alma mater’s 200th birthday. “Fair Harvard” would eventually become the melody sung at commencement and the centerpiece of a large and impressive collection of Harvard-inspired tunes. But, in 1994, 136 years after his death, the most famous lyrical change came to pass on Gilman’s original work. Fair Harvard now had “daughters” as well as “sons” and for then-President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...event’s scheduled start time, and was swiftly rewarded with testaments from students who took the podium to recall the high points of his presidency and professorship. The recollections ranged from Summers’ work on financial aid, to his support for undergraduate student events, to the famous appearances at student dances that marked his tenure in the University’s top spot.The event featured no prepared remarks from Summers—who said he would leave that to others later in the week. Instead, the former president, before being bestowed with an honorary membership...
Including Kennedy, at least four of this year’s 11 honorary degree recipients boasted strong Harvard ties. Kandel, famous for his study of the brain, was a history and literature major as a Harvard undergraduate but found himself interested in discovering more about the brain after an encounter with a fellow student at the College whose parents were psychoanalysts, according to a biography posted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he serves as an investigator...
...that matter most to voters this year - the economy, health care and Iraq - it's hard to make the case that he is charting a course different from Bush's. Obama and Democratic surrogates will pound the idea that McCain is really McBush - and they'll use the now-famous photo of McCain embracing Bush during the President's 2004 reelection campaign to reinforce the point. "When this thing is over, every voter in America will see McCain hugging Bush in their dreams at night," says a Democratic strategist who advises the Obama campaign from the outside. "Or should...