Word: brainchild
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...free mega rink is the brainchild of leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, as part of his campaign to make this heaving mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring, he shipped in tons of sand to build four urban beaches that were also a hit with residents, while inspiring dozens of comedy skits about plump sunbathers walking through gridlocked traffic. Ebrard has also built miles of cycle paths, on which he's posed for cameras atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...
...club-style attire,” and most heeded the call with expensive—or expensive-looking—get ups, though a rogue pair of “DHAs” was spotted near the dining hall’s tray return. The party was the brainchild of David C. Lipson ’08 and Sam J. Silverlieb ’08, who are roommates and members of the Pfoho House Committee. “Our aim was to create a party based on extravagance, creating the type of atmosphere one would see at an exclusive club...
...transformative power of dance became the focal point of “Extraordinary Minds at Work Featuring Jacques d’Amboise,” held in the Radcliffe Gym on November 24. The second in a series of live-audience tapings for a film series that is the brainchild of Howard E. Gardner ’65, a professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the event took the form of a conversation between Gardner and d’Amboise, interspersed with performance elements.Gardner, who is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences?...
...cuts by 2050. While students marched on Washington, activists from around the country launched Step It Up 2 on Nov. 3, a nationwide, single-day campaign to kickstart political movement on climate change. (The first Step It Up day of action happened in April.) The brainchild of environmentalist and author Bill McKibben and a group of students from Middlebury College, Step It Up aims to shove global warming to the center of the national political agenda, and it's exactly the sort of sustained campaign needed to make climate change matter at the ballot box. (Listen to McKibben talk about...
That's also the idea behind the ISB. The brainchild of Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey & Co., the school is funded by some of the country's biggest corporations. Kellogg, Wharton and the London Business School helped design the curriculum. Tuition for the one-year M.B.A. degree is about $43,000, and most of its 400 or so students pay full fare, although there are some scholarships. The majority of the faculty are U.S.-educated Indians, many of whom were teaching in the U.S. and have been lured home with salaries of about $75,000, five times what...