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...trends.“Theft is pretty spread out,” Catalano says. He adds that the rack outside of Gund Hall, near Annenberg Hall on Cambridge Street, “could be considered a hot spot, but it is the biggest bike rack on campus, which could explain the larger number of thefts.”Aside from a dip in the winter—when campus bicycle use drops dramatically—there are no clear temporal trends, either. Even during the summer months, when campus is filled with students who are unfamiliar with Cambridge, the rate...
...restaurant’s opening. A previous contest had determined the name for b.good’s basic burger, now called “Cousin Oliver” after the cousin on “The Brady Bunch.” This time, the founders challenged patrons to explain why they would be the “best cousin” to their fledgling business.“We love fast food and want to make it real,” Olinto said. “We want to make the customers feel like a part of what...
...Because one of the central characters (Mark, played by Anthony Rapp) is a freelance filmmaker, I half expected a plot twist that would reveal the movie to be “his” documentary of his and his friends’ lives—that at least would explain the enterprise’s amateur production value.A few of the film’s scenes do succeed: The “Santa Fe” musical number is especially inspired. The cast performs the song in a crowded subway car and recruits unsuspecting commuters into their impromptu revelry. Keith...
...stretch upwards from amid the gray-brown clutter of Jessica Y. Yin ’01’s sculpture table. “My project is based on the idea of modularity of the body,” Yin, a fourth year Graduate School of Design (GSD) student, explains as she globs more silicone onto several damaged fingers. Her classmates are similarly engaged: Dismembered plaster torsos, a plump balloon-hand dripping silicone, and strangely solitary feet and toes litter the studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r: “Criticality, the Body...
Most visitors to North Korea find the place weird, but can't quite explain why. On a rare trip last month, another traveler told me it was like going to ?the moon, with people.? I had my own epiphany: North Korea is Pleasantville. Just as in the Gary Ross satire of the 1950s sit-com vision of reality, life in the kingdom of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is always as pleasant as a picture postcard. The streets are tidy and orderly, the citizens patriotic and the children sing in perfect harmony. From the plastic flowers in the hotels...