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Hahvahdparties.com co-founder Paul H. Hersh ’04 said the advent of these websites offered direction for Harvard students looking...
...Brattle Square Florists once devoted half of its space to selling fruit. Store manager Stephen Zedros says that the advent of airfreight made it easier to receive fresh flowers, so the store abandoned its fruit selling...
With job interviews coming up, and the advent of a certain date in April that has certain significations for certain people who engage in a certain herbal substance, Gossip Guy found himself, err, swamped this week. Fortunately his energetic younger sister, Gossip Gal, is back to heed the call, wearing her spring best and bringing you bare-legged rumors, strappy lies, and pastel-colored innuendo...
...supposed to make it up yourself, where are you supposed to get it? From this perspective, reporters have it easy. There is always something new to report. Life itself supplies a regular stream of events--roughly 3.2 billion an hour, according to scientists. With the advent of computers, it has become a simple matter to rank all events in order of their suitability as news, using the famous Gannett scale, developed by the well-known newspaper chain and involving such factors as the impact of an event on other events, the number of proper names that are difficult to spell...
...Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Trumble watches it arc through art, anthropology and advertising - "a fabulously versatile contortion," he concludes, "capable of many meanings." Its current ascendancy, he argues, has come about through advances in dental science - allowing the smile to loom larger, and toothier, than ever - coupled with the advent of photography and film. Both, Trumble writes, "brought about a fundamental change in the way people saw the human face, and how they expected it to look back at them...