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...strong commitments to bipartisanship and helping others.“I’m proud to be here as Harvard says ‘Well done, senator, and thank you for caring about so many, so much, for so long,” Breyer said.Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, who performed with pianist Charlie Albright ’11, saluted the senator before he began playing two Gershwin preludes. The Kuumba Singers also performed during the ceremony.Kennedy beamed and mouthed, “Thank you very much,” to the crowd as he received...
...that the arrival of the Mahdi - a messiah-like figure who, Shi'ites believe, will ultimately defeat evil - will be presaged by the appearance of a messenger, a tall black man who will rule the West. Others read meaning into Obama's name. In Persian, O-ba-ma means "He's with us," and Barack Hussein can loosely be translated as "blessings of Hussein," an allusion to Ali's son, another imam revered by the Shi'ites. Obama's strenuous denials made no difference to these theorists: they simply reasoned that he must be practicing al-Taqqiya, or dissimulation...
...Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who served as chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under then-chairman Kennedy, is scheduled to also speak about the senator. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard students will perform musical selections. University President Drew G. Faust will also address the Sanders Theatre crowd...
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who served as chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under then-chairman Kennedy, is scheduled to speak about the senator at the Sanders Theatre ceremony. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard students will perform musical selections. University President Drew G. Faust will also speak...
...comes into the match on a high, following its dramatic 1-0 double-overtime victory over the University of Massachusetts on Saturday. Junior Andre Akpan scored the winner in the 103rd minute, sending the Crimson through to the second round.The final result was only half the story from Amherst, MA, though. Strong wind and a hard, slippery playing surface made for a very sloppy game where each team was forced to play hopeful long balls.Yesterday, the team traveled from the cold of Massachusetts to the sun in Florida in preparation for today’s match.The change of scenery should...