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...taught more than 1,000 students over the course of his career.Some of his more unconventional students have included Josie, a 101-year old woman who is legally deaf and blind, a 71-year-old marathon runner, and numerous pregnant women, Pacelli says.Psychology Lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 agrees that yoga can have substantial mental and physical benefits.“Yoga is associated with induced calm...and a more positive disposition and higher self-esteem,” says Ben-Shahar, who teaches Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology...

Author: By Pamela T. Freed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bend It Like Pacelli | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...exactly 25 years prior to that date, Dec. 20, 1981, that Dreamgirls opened on Broadway. Conceived and directed by Michael Bennett, the show was a critical and popular smash. It won six Tony awards, for Book, Choreography, Lighting, Actor (Ben Harney), Actress (Jennifer Holliday) and Featured Actor (Cleavant Derricks). The prizes it didn't take - for Best Musical, Score, Direction and Featured Actress - all went to Nine, itself quite a suave piece of musical theater but not in the class of the Bennett extravaganza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dream a Little Dream | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...British clothing retailer Ben Sherman is rolling out a campaign in June within the new PC and Xbox game Test Drive Unlimited. Not only will players see Ben Sherman billboards scattered throughout the game, they'll be able to visit a virtual store where they can "buy" clothes. In its real shops, the retailer is setting up pods so customers can play the game in the store. Suzanne Egleton, marketing head for Ben Sherman, has worked in the games industry and thinks games are a great way to reach her target audience of men aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ad-Ventures Online | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...life lessons that Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 taught his students in “Positive Psychology” this semester, yesterday’s might have been the most surprising. When you are the instructor of an 856-student class and you find that the final exam is missing, run as fast as you can. At 9:15 a.m., the students in Harvard’s largest course this semester packed seven lecture halls across campus, waiting to take their test. At 10:15 a.m., they were still waiting. Ben-Shahar attributed the lack of exams...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Psych! Students Show, Tests Don't | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...Dingman passed the e-mail along to the Office of Academic Programs. “I think it’s an ongoing topic of concern, this is not news for anyone, really,” he says.Even Harvard’s most positive professor, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96, doesn’t view reading period as the break Lowell once intended. “I have the summer to do my reading and stuff. Right now I have a lot of administration to take care of. The real break starts once the grades...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Constructing the Period | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

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