Word: circus
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...many ways, this pseudo-amputee circus has come to be a symbol for everything I see as awful (and admirable) about Harvard. No matter what time of day or setting, Harvard encourages a culture where its students must have the proverbial exam booklet in their hands at all times. It starts with issues like the emphasis of grade point average and the disincentive for academic risk taking, and it ends with a handicapped, competitive groping toward the models of Success and Glory...
...needs some cotton candy after a brutal final, head to the Big Apple Circus, in town until May 16. Check out www.bostix.org/ for half-price tickets...
...carnage, however, the focus remained on service. The club’s first service event was at Relay for Life this past Friday, and next year they plan to perform for children’s groups and at nursing homes. Pilar M. Mayora ’12, who attended circus school in Argentina between high school and college and now arranges performances for the club, has seen this side of clowning before. “My thing was always to make people happy, and being a clown is a good way to make people happy,” she said...
...good for the Agency, because working in a job such as deception detection is the equivalent of Jason Bourne doing trick shots in the circus; he gets practice, and the circus gets customers. Financial firms get to use tested intelligence skills to make better market decisions, and the Agency gets employees that are better practiced, without having...
Renting a former Hollywood studio and filling it with over 200 paintings, sculptures and prints, and an installation of 25,000 books, the exhibition is of comically immense scale. But the media-hype and careful manipulation of marketing strategies ensures Guetta’s circus is a ground-breaking success...