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...time speechwriter to former Prime Minister Paul Keating and now director of the global issues program at the Lowy Institute. Although his choices favor Labor leaders such as Keating, Gough Whitlam and John Curtin, there's a good sample from the Tories, including Robert Menzies, Alfred Deakin and John Howard. Each selection is adroitly and briefly introduced. Fullilove laments that today's speechmaking and writing ain't what they used to be, particularly in foreign affairs. Yet in the era of short attention spans, the speech still endures. Why? "Because there is no better way to deploy your arguments...
...writer, a newsman at The Australian, argues that antagonists Keating (below) and Howard, the dominant politicians of their generation, are the joint fathers of today's affluence-and partners in the disruptive reforms that have transformed Australia over the past two decades. Some commentators in these matters rely on spleen, others on lofty remoteness. Megalogenis is a data fiend and a diviner of patterns and types. Few know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion...
...Footloose” jazzes up the pillared Agassiz with suave moves, upbeat music, and neon leg-warmers. Produced by Taylor M. Owings ’08 and directed by Andrew B. Malone ’08 with music direction by Jeffrey W. Howard ’08 and choreography by Olivia A. Jennings ’06, the cast and crew of “Footloose” achieves the rare feat of putting on a show whose elements all worked together with ease. They are professional, but they are also having fun—an essential attitude that seeps...
Professors Howard E. Gardner ’65, Stephen Owen, and Theda Skocpol have joined founding fathers, academic bigwigs, and current Harvard scholars as newly elected members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for “promoting useful knowledge,” the APS is the oldest learned society in America...
...College in the fall for the final semester of his senior year. He was a resident of Leverett House and a former president of Native Americans at Harvard College. Leverett residents learned of Meat’s death last Thursday evening in an e-mail from House Master Howard Georgi ’68. —Staff writer Daniel J. Hemel can be reached at hemel@fas.harvard.edu...