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...Bernanke ’75, chairman of the Federal Reserve and Class Day speaker, is kind of a big deal. Future investment bankers across campus are salivating over what he might say, but Harvard students have high expectations. If he wants to one-up the famous Marshall Plan speech of 1947, he’ll have to drop some pretty big news. Here are 15 speech agendas that would get our attention...
...interior) and some cheese and condiments, and you've got a lot of flavors and textures going on. All of which, Ozersky fears, will be ruined by the big-name chefs. "I think these guys don't really get burgers," he says. "They all want to tweak it and one-up each other, so they use Kobe beef and truffles, but it can't be improved upon. All these efforts are doomed to folly." Which, at least, is something about burgers I agree with him on. After all, if we could make ground beef better by adding stuff...
...recent Colbert Report, Huckabee riffed to Stephen Colbert on Senator John McCain's vow to pursue Osama bin Laden "to the gates of hell." "I will charge hell with a water pistol if necessary," Huckabee deadpanned, as if to one-up McCain. How about outsourcing jobs? "As long as it isn't mine." Then Colbert asked if he believed that evolution was a farce. "It's all a farce," Huckabee said, in his usual dry tone. Ha ha! How droll! Except ... um ... he doesn't believe in evolution...
...Brown could not one-up Harvard for long. Despite intentionally walking the Crimson’s power-hitting junior, the Bears could not stop Vance from hammering in a fifth-inning RBI with a two-out single to secure a solid, seven-run Harvard lead. Vance led the Crimson yet again in Sunday’s second game, hitting on three of four at-bats...
...aging actress with emerging hopes of winning an Oscar—develops her character with the same manic disposition that so highlights her previous roles in Guest’s films. Posey, the young star in “Home for Purim,” continues to one-up herself as the champion of Guest’s improvisational styled humor. Unlike previous films, “For Your Consideration” begins to stray from the truly informal, improvised feel of past “mockumentaries” and follows a more formal, planned plot. This will probably...