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...more sensitive than later classes to the need for the College to be a center of debate over the moral issues of the time and a home for views contrary to those of established forces, particularly those of governments. To cite the opening line of Bismarck’s famous quip, “whoever is not a Socialist at age 20 has no heart...
...aspiring writer, and Elizabeth, who has already launched a successful literary career as a published author, soon relaunch a long-running argument over the true authorship of one of Elizabeth’s works. When the three characters find themselves in possession of the unpublished manuscript of a famous but recently deceased author, they are at odds over what to do with it. Their plans and alliances constantly shift until the play’s climactic revelation...
...schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons received a presidential pardon Monday and was deported from the country. But while her alleged crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
...contrast, his running mate Frances I. Martel ’09 relishes the spotlight. “I wish I was famous forever,” she says...
While Martel is a devout Catholic, Zimmermann calls himself a “fightin’ atheist.” A collage in Martel’s bedroom features famous right-wingers including Bill O’Reilly and Ronald Reagan, but her running mate is a Democrat...