The Boston Traveler

Now we’re talking. A mere week ago, Harvard Lampoon members announced their plans to bestow the Hastiest Pudding of the Lampoon Award upon hotel heiress Paris Hilton.
Today, Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has stolen the spotlight entirely by announcing its excellent choices of Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Christopher Walken to become the society’s next Woman and Man of the Year, respectively. According to The Pudding, performers must have made a substantial contribution to the entertainment industry to enjoy those honors.
Theron, 32, received her Best Actress Academy Award for her work in the harrowing 2003 fact-based drama Monster, …read more

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Or at least British author J.K. Rowling, the woman who created him and his wizardly world, is.
Cambridge-based Harvard University announced Thursday that the next individual to deliver its annual commencement address will be the renowned writer. She, of course, penned the seven-volume young-adult Harry Potter fantasy series that eventually evolved into a behemoth film franchise.
More important to quite a few aspiring children’s authors living the classic starving-artist lifestyle, Rowling began her brilliant literature career while a single mother with very limited means. I guess I don’t have to say outright that I really respect her contributions to children’s …read more

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Unbelievable. Of all the members of the female gender in the world, Harvard University’s gleefully juvenile, occasionally humorous magazine the Harvard Lampoon has decided to bestow the title of Woman of the Year upon hotel heiress Paris Hilton.
Why? I suspect it’s because the boys who make up the majority of the publication’s staff are itching to see the 26-year-old Internet porn headliner up close and in the (hopefully as close to naked as possible) flesh. Meanwhile, the girls at the magazine likely just want somebody really notorious on hand to help the magazine’s annual ceremony get as …read more

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Madeleine Albright, the accomplished former U.S. Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton (1997–2001), is coming to Cambridge tomorrow.
Although registration is required for her 5:30pm EST joint appointment with Harvard Professor of International Relations Joseph Nye at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and tickets are sold out for her 8pm appearance at Harvard Book Store, there’s certain to be plenty of local media coverage once both engagements are over.
The occasion of Albright’s visit is the January 8th publication of her new book, Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership, which comes …read more

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As has been widely reported, two-time former Pakistani prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated yesterday at a political rally held in honor of her return to her homeland after eight years of self-imposed exile. The 54-year-old member of the Pakistan Peoples Party received a top-notch Western college education at Harvard and Oxford Universities before becoming the first woman and youngest person ever to lead a predominantly Muslim nation when she was elected the first time at the age of 35 in November 1988.
A number of U.S. publications have devoted space to the recollections of Bhutto’s former …read more

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