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...live up to their full potential as social spaces?I’ll take it a step further and offer up a possible solution: The University should de-randomize housing and give rising sophomores greater say in choosing their social communities. At one point in the not-so-distant past “What House are you in?” wasn’t a vapid question. Adams was artsy. Eliot was snooty. Lowell was brainy. Mather was jock-y. Sure, there are potential problems with racial self-segregation and intra-house homogeneity, but flattening these wrinkles with...
...charter school, the achievement gap that has scarred the Cambridge public schools for years, and a citywide construction boom.His years of work on the council may make him a savvy politician, but, according to Montgomery, he’s known more as a political homeboy than a distant star.“When you say Ken Reeves, you say, “Isn’t he from Cambridge?’” Montgomery said on the air. “He’s always been in Cambridge.”For many, in fact, he?...
...COLLIGAN: From the very beginning, we felt the future of personal computing is mobile computing. We're halfway there. In the not too distant future, people will turn to [portable] devices for their computing needs, to access information and to communicate. I think we're going to lead that continued revolution. Ten years from now, I think we will have every opportunity to be like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Oracle and the great companies in Silicon Valley...
...novel. At the conclusion of the first segment, Max is brutally murdered at the steps of India’s apartment building. Just as soon as it is revealed that the murderer is Max’s Kashmiri chauffeur, the enigmatic title character, the narrative dives into a distant past inexorably linked to the present.The second segment, entitled “Boonyi,” details the budding romance between Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar, and Boonyi Kaur, his future wife and India’s future mother. Rushdie’s lush descriptions of the fertile valleys...
...work—one of them by Rubin—and the plethora of websites dedicated to him contradict Murakami’s hopeful assertion. Whether he likes it or not, Murakami the Man and Murakami the Writer attract a lot of attention. They make Murakami the distant and intriguing Celebrity...