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One must never underestimate the prescience of Ashton Kutcher. Critics panned his 2004 thriller The Butterfly Effect, but its title popularized an obscure concept of chaos theory--that small acts can beget far-flung consequences, as a butterfly's flapping its wings can trigger a storm thousands of miles away...
Two years later, we have a butterfly infestation: movies and TV are obsessed with stories about the random connections among vast, multinational and multilingual casts of strangers. Crash won the Best Picture Oscar for a story of multicultural Angelenos brought into conflict by circumstance. This year Babel has Oscar buzz...
On one level, this butterfly-fiction trend is just a variation on the classic dorm-room-stoner epiphany: that everything is, like, connected, dude. But it also rings true with our lives, which are linked to those of strangers around the world today in ways we sense but can't...
The Harvard men’s swimming and diving team kicked off its new season in style, easily defeating Penn by a score of 189-101 on Saturday at Blodgett Pool. The Quakers (0-1) were overmatched in nearly every event, as the Crimson (1-0) took first in all...
After a disappointing spring, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team started out its 2006-07 dual-meet season with a strong performance this weekend. Of the 15 events the Crimson competed in during the meet, Harvard took first place in 12 of them. Harvard ended the...