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...answer to relaxation. A typical productive-unproductive summer allows us to do something we enjoy because of its underlying academic or charitable purpose. Often it is as much work as a real job. Our desire to travel across Europe forces us to retrace the footsteps of Attila the Hun and write a travel narrative afterwards. If we want to lie around just doing nothing, it is because Kierkegaard once spent his summer lying around doing nothing, and we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student?...
...about the effect that the proposal’s adoption might have. “If...Faculty members would only show up if there’s a high enough probability that showing up would matter in terms of reaching the required threshold,” said Economics professor Attila Ambrus, “then you would probably expect less people.” But Ambrus’ thinking had a qualifier—not every one of FAS’ approximately 700 voting members thinks like a character in an economics textbook. “I guess the question...
...Leslie clan can trace its lineage back to Attila the Hun and was granted what was originally a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha.) estate by King Charles II as thanks for helping to keep Oliver Cromwell at bay. Sir John Leslie built the castle itself in 1870, and invited all his pre-Raphaelite artist friends - including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin and Frederic Leighton - to stay...
...hope of two paisan producers to make films that appealed both to the local market and the American, often by pairing one of their star spouses with a Hollywood name. Thus Mangano played Penelope (and Circe) to Kirk Douglas' Ulysses; Loren was the honey to Anthony Quinn's Attila. Quinn, in Federico Fellini's La Strada, was the circus brute to the sad clown played by Fellini's wife, Giuletta Masina. Europa 51, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starred his then-wife Ingrid Bergman. Their grandest production - King Vidor's War and Peace, with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn and her actor...
...Economics 1420 to skip the midterm. “If a student has a thesis due between 7 days before or 7 days after the midterm, they have the option to skip the midterm and have the final count extra,” Liebman said. Assistant Professor of Economics Attila Ambrus, who teaches “Game Theory in Economics” said that he scheduled the midterm close to the thesis date because he expected mostly sophomores and juniors to take his class. “There is another game theory class at the same time which targets seniors...