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...Broad Institute, a three-year-old joint venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those in neuroscience and genetics,” said Edward Scolnick ’61, who directs the institute’s Psychiatry Initiative and will head the new center. “We can take that on now in a way that would have been impossible without the Stanley grant.” The money will be donated over...
...opera to do. We had trouble finding cast members and production staff and with a show of this size, you really need backup,” says Sarah S. Eggleston ’07, who produced the show. Music Director Channing Yu ’93 and Stage Director Edward Eaton chose to remain faithful to the work’s original form, staging it with full orchestral accompaniment and keeping Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto in German, albeit with English subtitles. The comic opera’s plot—full of surprise, deception, and intrigue?...
...cumulative consumer savings from the extra hour of sunshine will reach $4.4 billion, and the lowered energy use will eliminate the need to build more than three large electric power plants and prevent nearly 10.8 million metric tons of carbon emissions from contributing to global warming. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who introduced the DST amendment with Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), says other benefits include reduced crime, fewer traffic fatalities, more recreation time and increased economic activity. "The entire population is active at 6 p.m. versus 6 a.m., and if we all have an extra hour before we turn...
...meet, so people were a lot more relaxed and just fenced their best, turning up the heat. It was great to see everyone fencing at a high level.” The men were not to be outdone, also winning two weapons, but finishing third in the other. Junior Edward Sherill and Hagamen were crowned champions in the epee and saber, respectively. Senior Enoch Woodhouse wore the bronze in the foil at the end of the day for Harvard. “Enoch Woodhouse fenced probably better than I’ve ever seen him fence,” Hagamen...
...Presidents and presidential candidates have long felt pressured to conform to unnatural and confining standards. Those who couldn't meet them often pretended that they had. One of the strictest requirements, since Andrew Jackson inaugurated the era of the common man, has been that the President fulfill what historian Edward Pessen called the log-cabin myth: the personal-creation narrative that begins with humble roots. For some Presidents--the Roosevelts and J.F.K. spring to mind--the effort was clearly impossible. But other patricians in the White House have passed as plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called...