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Every one of those applications represents one more aspect of your life that can live on Facebook, and the more you can do there, the more important and valuable the site becomes. (And, as MySpace recently discovered, the more tempting it is to hackers.) Search engines help you find things, but everything they cull from is public. A social network affords something more: access to the personal lives and tastes of the people in your circle, or at least as much as they're willing to share. For that reason, explains Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's vice president of product marketing...
...more jarring and less enjoyable than the first. Andy Vores composed the music, a mix of synthesized sounds and live orchestra, especially for the dance. Vores’ use of remixed radio excerpts and other unconventional noises complemented the piece’s “fractured” aspect well. But the dissonance of the music, at one point accompanied by an alarm-like bell from the live percussion, made for a rather unpleasant listening experience. The dancers frequently placed their hands on their foreheads as part of the choreography, but at points the motion seemed more like...
...While Rowling's tales have long been cultural touchstones and commercial blockbusters, at Robert Mellors they permeate every aspect of this term's studies. In literacy classes, students learn to distinguish between types of prose by writing their own screenplays based on Potter's exploits; they pick up the basics of geography by plotting locations used in the Potter films. The student body is divided into the four "houses" in Rowling's novels - Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin - and earn "house points" for academic achievement, just as in the books. "It's made school a lot easier and better," says...
...strike to resolve itself. “Ultimately I sympathize with the writers, but I want to work, I want to make a living,” Alpert said. “When there’s a work stoppage in the entertainment industry, it affects every aspect of the city’s economy.” Without the influx of new scripts from members of the Writers’ Guild, Alpert says his firm will have to adjust its focus to animation, international co-production and local-language pieces. SOLIDARITY AND CUPCAKESMia E. Riverton...
...Harvard University Planning Office conducted a survey to determine the Harvard community’s opinions on the Square’s “retail mix and urban character.” Fourty-four percent of respondents identified the abundance of chains as their least favorite aspect of the Square; 28 percent said that it had become a worse place to visit because independent stores had been driven away. When asked which retail establishment was their favorite, respondents picked Harvard Book Store over popular Square destinations like the Coop and CVS.These optimistic statistics coincided with the beginning...