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...Ben Franklin once said that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. In my years, I’ve considered the fact that Cookie Monster really only eats cookies among these as well, which makes his recent eccentricity—for health considerations, he now calls cookies a “sometime food”—seem all the more curious...
...graduates of Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” led to his latest Internet project: a positive psychology-based, online public forum allowing users to post five happy thoughts a day. Launched in early March, www.butterbeehappy.com was inspired by the teachings of Harvard lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96. After reading Ben-Shahar’s book, “Happier,” Pounders sought to spread the word about his happiness-generating technique. “I wanted to give people an outlet to write about their happy thoughts...
Concomitant with the wave of nostalgia that followed Sept. 11, 2001 was a wave of escapism, manifest in the celebrity culture of Bonnie Fuller’s weekly feature, “Stars—They’re Just like US!” showing Ben Affleck pumping gas and Kate Hudson at supermarket. Within a month of Britney’s Super Bowl commercial, the seeds were sown for our collective consumption of her downward spiral. “The genius of Bonnie Fuller’s new approach was that almost any picture of a celebrity doing...
...squabbling comes as the U.S. central bank chief, Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, is scrambling to shore up shaky financial markets. Among other actions, Bernanke this week helped prevent the bankruptcy of a major brokerage house, Bear Stearns, and cut U.S. interest rates 0.75 of a percentage point to try to keep America from slipping into recession. But in Japan, there's little central bank activity, despite the threat of recession, a sliding stock market, and the decline of the dollar to its lowest level against the yen in 13 years. "At this moment the situation is very...
...found a similarly sordid narrative to plant on the back pages. Thus came the paper’s report last Tuesday that the former jewel of Harvard’s “highly regarded recruiting class,” six-foot-ten Nigerian-born center Frank Ben-Eze, has reneged on his commitment to don Crimson next fall, perhaps in light of the negative attention brought by the Times’ exposure of possible recruiting violations by coach Tommy Amaker.The about-face should work out alright for Ben-Eze, whose high-school coach told the Times that...