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...When we moved to an all-volunteer force, we had to be able to attract volunteers, and you have to be able to motivate them, and provide them with the kind of opportunity for service, and to meet basic, fundamental requirements, when they've got other options. It fundamentally transforms the way they think about people, the way they think about the organization. I think it's had an enormous impact on the services, as well. Part of this comes from my time as Secretary of Defense, and I'm a huge believer in the all-volunteer force...
...times that undergraduates could tour the Lamont Library Cafe, which opened yesterday. Though about 150 students came to sample the free espressos, cafes au lait, eclairs, fruit kebabs, and chicken salad wraps that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) employees offered to students and administrators, the event did not attract the crowds that left several hundred students out, hungry, in the cold at last year’s run on Lamont. “We weren’t sure how many of you to expect,” Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline told a crowd...
Harvard students and sleazy, mustachioed 30-somethings alike will now have the opportunity to chase attractive strangers on the new missed connections Web site, Kizmeet.com. Kizmeet allows users to create posts (usually to the tune of, “you were drinking chai latte, and I wanted to bone you”) chronicling the flying of sparks in an array of public places around Boston including Starbucks restaurants and even Fenway Park. The site, which is broken into subsections by city, has dedicated boards for several Harvard Square locations, including Peet’s Coffee, Tealuxe, Redline, and even Harvard?...
...expression during China’s Cultural Revolution, a tumultuous 10-year period starting in 1966 during which thousands of Chinese were executed and millions more displaced. The manager of the Office for the Arts’ Learning From Performers program, Thomas Lee, said he expects the festival to attract a diverse crowd of students. “Many students who are not well versed in music and musical performance will be attracted to the residency’s cultural and historical aspects,” Lee wrote in an e-mail. Tomorrow’s events will be headlined...
...monkey population has grown in recent years - in addition to the urban feasts seeming to attract more, Malik also blames scientific laboratories, which use monkeys for experiments and then abandon them - the natural balance has been thrown off kilter. Hungry monkeys attack people and snatch food when they can. In 2004, monkeys were blamed when Ministry of Defence officials found top secret documents scattered around an office. Monkeys have broken into parliament and kept people from entering their own houses...