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...better music started to ease the pain of Snoop and Wyclef’s no-shows. Even the underwhelming culinary options had a certain charm on this Sunday eve. Folds’ songs proved to be great background for some hours of timely relaxation and unwinding just before the beginning of reading period. We hope the new College Events Board keeps Yardfest and the fall’s Harvard State Fair in mind as they begin to set an agenda for next year. In particular, the Yard has proven a great venue for these sorts of events, successfully bringing social...
...handled by College administrators. For its first year, the Board has been promised $200,000 from the College, but it’s unlikely such generosity will continue. Though fears of another termbill increase loom, the most important thing to remember is that any solution must allows planning to begin one, or even two semesters before events are scheduled to take place. In addition, the Board will need structured relationships with both future Campus Life Fellows and other institutional resources, like the Office of Student Activities...
...truth is that we must begin to make some tough decisions and painful sacrifices. Policies must be enacted to encourage consumers and businesses to become less dependent on gasoline; research and implementation of renewable energy technology must be pursued as a national priority, not as a footnote to perennially-stalled and misguided attempts to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling...
...prize money will be used to purchase equipment to begin making their prototype into a marketable reality, the winners say. The group coalesced around the heart monitor project through a combination of Orenstein’s connections with doctors in the Dallas area and an established partnership between high-school friends Jakus and Rapoport, according to Rapoport. But beyond this project, he added, “the thing about us that gives me real confidence in this company is that we’re just incredibly fertile and full of ideas, and we really have a line-up of projects...
...Russia but is allowed to keep a small-scale facility under IAEA supervision for enrichment research purposes. The U.S. flatly rejected such a proposal in March (on the grounds that it would allow Iran to gain important nuclear know-how), but if the alternative is confrontation, it may begin to look more appealing to some of its allies. Both Germany and Russia previously hinted they could support such a plan. And as U.S. allies find themselves caught uncomfortably between Iran's defiance and a U.S. strategy that looks destined to end in confrontation, Tehran may see the advantage in launching...