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After being rejected by Woody Allen, Orson Welles and Lily Tomlin--among many others--the senior class committee finally settled on Rodney Dangerfield as this year's Class Day speaker. Dangerfield, known to millions for his heart-warming televised tributes to Miller Lite beer, apparently decided he could get more respect from the seniors and their parents than the usual crew of drunken nightclub patrons. Dangerfield has never attended a Harvard Commencement before.

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