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...undergraduates will be established this spring to determine the shape of the new advising program, Rinere said.“I have invited the members of the prefect board to join us on the Student Advisory Board (SAB), and I’m hoping that they’ll accept my invitation so that they can help shape the peer advising program,” she said.Last night, prefect board members decided to take Rinere’s offer of positions on the SAB, but Ullman said board members are concerned that the new group, once formed, may not have...
...France, where foie gras is the highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents are unpredictable. One fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic h5n1 strain of avian...
Traditional television will see a painful 10% drop in revenues from advertising over the next two years, says Bernoff, so "like a dying patient accepting a terminal condition, the networks have had to accept a change in how they do business. Audiences are shrinking, but rather than just sit around and suffer, TV networks decided to diversify." All the talk about how teenagers and kids are turning away from television may be true, he says, but "young people will get jobs, get married, buy houses, buy big expensive TV sets and turn into the same people who are watching...
...Giovanditto’s group filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in October, charging that the Board was not giving residents the chance to negotiate directly with Harvard. Giovanditto could not be reached for comment last night. But Halbfinger indicated that tenants might accept the deal, although some residents have said they would prefer to move to a Harvard-owned plot behind the local library. Harvard’s Chief Planner Kathy Spiegelman also said she had received “positive feedback” about the proposal. Neither Spiegelman nor Halbfinger would comment...
...intellectual.”But balance is everything, and Birnbaum claims that a healthy dose of irony can be the only way to truly stomach some pop. “I think it’d be hard for anyone I know to say, ‘I accept all of Britney Spears’s lyrics unquestioningly,’” she says.“Lindsay Lohan’s ‘Rumors’? It’s a shit show,” she admits.A LITTLE TOO IRONICBirnbaum brings up that most crucial...