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...hundreds who filled Cambridge’s streets just one short month ago, as “not just a culmination, but a new beginning” for America. Who better than this particular elder statesman to make such a pronouncement? In the midst of his ongoing struggle with brain cancer and what will likely be his last term as a U.S. Senator, Kennedy has not only witnessed but also participated in much of America’s commendable progress over the last half-century. He has known, intimately, the lowest lows and highest highs of his country?...
...audition for ballet companies. Having now joined the ZBC ranks, she faces the struggles that come with the position. “So far the experience has been frankly brutal and somewhat like fighting a war on several fronts...my feet look like raw hamburger...at the end my brain felt like cooked hamburger,” says Moore. Processed beef metaphors aside, she toured with the company in Shanghai. In retrospect, says Moore, “Sacrificing my feet has been worth it.” For some students, globe-trotting and rehearsing forty hours each week might take...
...admit they like anything from Disney. It’s too commercial, too prepackaged. And that’s true. I am aware that a group of Disney employees, likely balding middle-aged men in their fifties, has somehow managed to tap into the pleasure portions of my brain. And it’s admittedly terrible stuff. It’s cheesy, unrealistic, and incredibly sappy.But what’s wrong with that?Here’s how I imagine a conversation between i-Pod boy and his friend probably sounds like:“What are you listening...
Psychology professor Steven Pinker addressed the role of language in studying human nature in front of a crowded room at Sherman Fairchild Hall yesterday evening. Pinker’s lecture, the fifth in an informal seminar series hosted by the Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior (HSMBB), centered on issues discussed in his new book “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window.” Human nature, Pinker said, can be studied by looking at how language works in our everyday lives. “Humans are very, very touchy with their social relationships. When...
...Lowell called for the creation of the House system as a way to rescue American educational institutions from becoming merely “automatic brain-fattening machines” that turned out graduates with no inclination toward “hard thinking...