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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Students looking to comment on the crispiness of their popcorn chicken or the availability of cracklin’ oat bran in their dining hall on the recent biannual Harvard University Dining Services survey found themselves disappointed, after HUDS changed the format of the questionnaire from past years. On this semester’s dining satisfaction Survey, HUDS focused primarily on sustainability, with 11 out of 25 survey questions relating directly to this issue. They also eliminated the section for open-ended response,s instead using a multiple choice format. In the past, HUDS’ survey provided a forum...

Author: By Malcolm-wiley T. Floyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Food Survey Looks At Sustainability | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Chinese art towards an apparent cool down. At a Sotheby's sale of 20th century Chinese artwork on Oct. 5, two-thirds of the 110 lots failed to sell, and many of the pieces that did find buyers went for below their estimated prices. By the close of the biannual sales of the world's largest publicly traded art auction house, Sotheby's took in about half what it had expected, at just over $140.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Crashing Markets Bring Chinese Art Back Down to Earth? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...speech by shouting “I don’t have to prove that originalism is perfect!” to a packed, applause-filled room. Scalia, who graduated magna cum laude from the Law School in 1960, delivered the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughn Lecture, a biannual address that will focus on the “founding principles and core doctrines” of the U.S. Constitution. In his speech, entitlted “Methodology of Originalism,” Scalia argued that justices should strive to base their decisions on the original meaning of the law. Within...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scalia Defends Original Meaning | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...this biannual opportunity seems to be enough public nudity for most students...

Author: By Samantha F. Drago, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nude Dancer Faces Felony Charge | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...have aimed for transparency in your management of the municipality [of Tehran], giving biannual reports on the state of city projects, the monies spent, and putting time limits on development projects. This should be absolutely normal, but in Iran, it's the exception. Why is there such poverty in management here? The main point is that our economy is public and must be privatized. A bill's been signed and we're in that process, but it's much too slow, and the government is investing massively in business at the same time that it's supposed to privatize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rival for Iran's Ahmadinejad | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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