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...free market, nothing sparks excellence like competition. Substandard products get weeded out, inefficient firms go bankrupt and better goods get produced. But not everybody likes competition. Bureaucracies often fight to defend substandard products by insulating themselves from competition. At Harvard, the age-old impulse to avoid competition has just taken an ironic twist: members of the Economics Department, that bastion of free-market fundamentalism, voted on April 9 to prevent one of their own from offering an alternative...
...profoundly affect visitors' moods. The entrance to the museum is through a long, winding tunnel, which is illuminated to show off twisted and tortured human forms sculpted into its walls. Other rooms are bright, airy contemplative spaces. The result is an informative and innovative look at an age-old social ill. What can Thailand do to top it? A museum of the world's oldest profession, in the heart of Bangkok's infamous red-light district? If done this well, one can only hope...
After a controversial run in Europe, Gaspar Noe’s shockingly violent film Irreversible opens in North America this weekend. Since its European release, the film has become notorious as a kind of censorship stomping ground, reviving the age-old debate of art over content. The film itself, however, deserves more...
...outside is not more exciting than shortbread, and the recipe calls for ingredients that can be found around the house: flour, eggs, sugar, baking soda and butter. But let nouveau cuisine invent zany combinations; tradition looms along Brookline’s Harvard Street, where the bakeries continue the age-old tradition of shaping Haman’s malice into scrumptious cookies...
...even if he’s not really Asian-American,” says Harvard sophomore Dennis Chira, a Celtics fan who went with the CSA group. “He’s what I and many others hope will bring a wrecking ball to the ignorant insulting age-old stereotype that Asians are unathletic...