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...songs are certainly in keeping with the moralizing tone of the movie and their lyrics seem to be competing with the dialogue to see which can be the most strident. For all their self-righteousness, the directors make several extremely relevant and well-argued points. Donahue and Spiro clearly spent a long time selecting clips of senate debates and their effort pays off. The scenes offer a surprising amount of black comedy as the ignorance of our leaders is made clear. As numerous senators invoke statistics that—with the benefit of hindsight—were clearly...
...Princeton spent $100 million constructing Whitman College, one of its six residential colleges, in 2007. Yale has been in the midst of a long-term renovation of its 12 residential Colleges that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and lasted over 19 years...
While the two differed in year and residence—Garin lived in Quincy House, Penn in Leverett House—they knew each other well from working on The Crimson. Garin credits The Crimson—for which he was the political editor, and where he says he spent twelve hours a day—for providing not only many long-lasting relationships, but also an “incredibly important learning experience as important as anything else I learned in school...
...Surprisingly, Togut’s Yiddish leanings came not from a familial familiarity with the language, but rather from her love of Jewish culture in general. Though Togut insists that she doesn’t like language classes in the slightest, she thoroughly enjoyed her time spent studying Yiddish. This interest peaked in a summer spent abroad in Lithuania, in which Togut’s interest in Yiddish music began to blossom. “When I was in Lithuania, every Friday we had Shabbas Kiddush where we all go to the Jewish center,” she says...
While some students spent their spring breaks reeling from midterms, Aaron C. Fallon ’11 and Alana C.M. O’Brien ’11 were performing Reels in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the World Championships of Irish Dance. The competition, which took place from March 23 to 30, was a high point for the freshmen, who spent three months training for it. Fallon and O’Brien qualified for the championships after placing first and third, respectively, at the New England Regional Championships, and after placing at the North American National Championships...