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This year was not unique in the difficulty of its mayoral election process. Since Cambridge adopted its current form of government in 1940, many of the biannual deliberations that have chosen new mayors for the city have been similarly tortuous...
...hour Play Festival is a biannual tradition now in its 14th semester at Harvard. In the span of only a day, about 30 students write, rehearse, direct, and perform five short plays. Even more impressively, the fifth is often a musical with original songs...
...same time, Wen has also said that "no one wants a trade or currency war." Even as the China Development Forum was taking place, Wen noted that a Chinese envoy was en route to Washington to discuss trade issues, and pointed with hope to a May session of the biannual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, at which high-ranking delegations from both sides will sit down in Washington. "You got a sense," says an American participant, "that he wants calmer heads to prevail...
...advantage to replacing the traditional biannual runway show - which features clothing that won't be available in stores for another six months - is that designers can close the six-month gap between the show and the products' availability. Ideally, consumers who watch a show online would then be able to click on a product they see and buy it immediately. "Now we can serve the industry and our customer simultaneously," says Lauren, "which is critical to the survival of this industry...
...biannual survey of undergraduates showed a fall in overall satisfaction from 3.85 to 3.72 on a five-point scale, as well as decreasing scores in all 15 other categories ranging from the taste of the food to the cleanliness of facilities...