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...A.R.T., who aided in the staging, character, and plot development of the 10 undergraduate plays. “It was nice to come into an environment where professionals were working with us,” said Matthew I. Boher ’10, a member of the class (and author of the Nick character). Ranging from hilariously awkward to wryly introspective, the works featured true-to-life dialogue and plenty of colorful characters. Sara L. Wright ’09 opened the festival with a play entitled “The Late Mr. Crawford.” Wright was greeted...
...After researching more than 750 major business failures in great depth, we came to the conclusion that humans are wired for poor decision-making," says Chunka Mui, a co-author of Billion-Dollar Lessons. "Ego, sunk costs, emotions, self-interest, etc., lead to blind spots. The not-so-intelligent have the same issues, it's just that the stakes are lower...
Lawrence H. Diller is on the clinical faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of Running on Ritalin and The Last Normal Child...
...conservation behind the exhibit. Ongoing, The Museum of Fine Arts, $23 with student ID 3. Are you a member of “Fight Club”? Don’t tell us! (Keep rules 1 and 2, space monkey.) Instead go meet Chuck Palahniuk, the author behind Tyler Durden, at a discussion of his new book “Pygmy.” Tickets are available at the Harvard Book Store. Tuesday, May 5, 6 p.m., The Brattle Theater, $5 general admission / $27 for book signing. 4.For those who are oh-so-excited it’s May: Then...
...forms of harsh interrogation are not convinced that the Army manual is adequate. Matthew Alexander, a former military interrogator in Iraq, says he found "police interrogation techniques much more appropriate" when questioning al-Qaeda operatives and Sunni insurgents. Alexander, who uses a pseudonym for security reasons, is the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq. His interrogations led to the location and killing of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...