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Romance, drama, espionage, ABBA, and...chess? The 1986 rock musical “Chess” features all of the above and the Murray Head hit “One Night in Bangkok.” The brainchild of Tim Rice and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, a Harvard production directed by Sean P. Bala ’09 will run through Dec. 7 in the Adams House Pool Theatre. The musical adds intrigue to what might seem like just another high-intensity, mind-boggling (or, to some, simply boring) game by using...
...Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqué party jokes and, yes, interesting articles was the original recipe for success in the pornographic magazine business. But the strange, seamy history of smut on paper neither began nor ended with Hef's brainchild...
...science-math program is the brainchild of Robert A. Lue, a professor of molecular and cellular biology and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ director of life sciences education. Through a competitive application and interview process, he chose sixteen undergraduates to mentor the 62 Allston students, ranging from six to 18 years old, who have signed...
...record of forecasters by identifying financial and economic indicators that had at least some measure of predictive power. The Index of Leading Economic Indicators now compiled by the Conference Board, which includes things like money supply, stock prices, unemployment claims and average weekly hours worked in manufacturing, was his brainchild. Its latest release, which came out on Thursday, showed a decline along the lines of the last recession...
...Five years later, they have that, and a lot more, in the Center for American Progress (CAP), the most influential independent organization in Obama's nascent Washington. CAP was the brainchild of former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, who dutifully worked wealthy dinner parties with a simple idea: He would create a new organization, a "think tank on steroids," to help progressive ideas regain power. Tom Daschle, once the top Democrat in the Senate, got on board, calling it an "action tank." Sarah Wartell, who would become Podesta's deputy, had a more homely description: "Not your...