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...Communications Director Daniel V. Kroop ’10, who serves on the Council’s Modern House Renewal Subcommittee, understands that current house design limits the breadth of the policy. “Right now we’re at a place where the university really wants to be accommodating but it can only do so much and it’s only willing to put its neck out so far,” he says...
...House renewal project delayed initial planning—“there’s technically nothing to delay,” Smith said in an interview last month. The release of a House Program Planning Steering Committee report will initiate the second phase of House renewal dealing with design and development. Nelson said the report will be made available to the Harvard community in about two weeks. She added that she expects construction and renovation, the third and final phase of House renewal, to begin no earlier than 2012. Nelson said the report is the product of a year...
Online Upgrade. Answering customers' complaints about online rental-car services, Avis has unveiled its revamped website. The new design makes it easier to compare discounts and modify reservations, giving you a side-by-side comparison of your original and new reservation. You can also compare deals from Avis and other rental agencies without leaving the site, preview a picture of the car, and get stats on luggage space, passenger capacity and fuel efficiency. Extra fees, for GPS, local taxes and insurance, are broken out line by line, so there are no surprises when you get your bill at the rental...
...Eliot resident took issue with the t-shirt design depicting Pertile as Vito Corleone, complete with the caption "The Housemaster." The Godfather, the resident wrote on the house list, portrays a "rather romanticized notion of mob violence that has helped propagate the stereotype associating Italians with violent crime." In other words, the mafia likes to kill people, and Pertile is certainly not the man for the job (he'd rather take a stab at Dante's Inferno, thank you very much, after the jump...
...Many American creationists also use other acts of verbal obfuscation. For instance, some attempt to spread the notion that there is a real debate among scientists between evolution and intelligent design and then encourage public schools to “teach the debate.” But among the most damaging tactics is to refer to those who accept evolution as Darwinists, because it feeds off the sense of awe many scientists genuinely feel toward Darwin. American creationists use it to imply that believers in evolution form little more than a religious sect, owing irrational fealty to a charismatic spiritual...