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...want (and ought to have the option) to spend their January working on extracurricular activities on campus or at jobs and internships in the Cambridge and Boston areas—two options that would be much less feasible without guaranteed campus housing. Renting an apartment is costly and more difficult for short time periods and would be especially challenging for students on financial...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Forced Migration | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...from hundreds of miles around. However, this year Cutzamala itself is running dry amid low levels of rainfall in the area. Its main basin is only 47% full, compared to an annual average of 70% for early April. "This could be caused by climate change and deforestation. These are difficult factors to understand and predict," says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some supply can continue until the rain in June." The first two partial stoppages in February and March cut off water to hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Taps in Mexico City: A Water Crisis Gets Worse | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...said for the likes of “Liquid In, Liquid Out” and the title track, the latter of which boasts a pretty irritating wordless-cheering section in lieu of a chorus.So the Thermals find themselves on the long road through self-parody. It’s difficult, at first, to listen to a band squander the potential of a record like “Machine” on such a middling follow-up. But then again maybe, in appropriately punk fashion, they only had one great record in them anyway.—Staff writer Ryan...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Thermals | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...reshaping and challenging the world that we live in.”“This is art that’s at the forefront of culture,” she continues. “Not that painting isn’t, per se, but it’s difficult in general to illuminate and speak intelligently about culture as it is happening. Technology allows artists to really do that forward thinking.”With information saturation becoming the distinguishing trait of our current era, artists are not the only ones who recognize the need to keep pace with...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Web and Flow of Art | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Brown, Betty • Asian-American voters are advised by that "it would behoove" them to change their names to ones that are "easier for Americans to deal with," because the only alternative apparently seen by - "everyone here having to learn Chinese," which is understood by to be "a rather difficult language" - is unappealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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