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...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...
...marks the fifth anniversary of the Boston Fantastic Film Festival, held at the Brattle Theatre. The brainchild of Ned Hinkle, the Theatre’s Creative Director, the genre-based film festival was created to screen films that may not otherwise be shown in the Boston area. In the past, it has been an early venue for national mega-hits, and this year’s fest promises to offer at least one film that’s likely to make viewers’ skin crawl with terror. “[The festival] presents a combination of horror...
...moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke” ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly set in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970, “Tree of Smoke” is the name of a covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel. It is the Colonel’s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese man, to trick the Vietcong into thinking that some crazed commandos have stolen an atomic bomb and are trying to detonate...