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That's one interpretation. Leslie Harrington, executive director of the Color Association, the oldest chromatic forecasting firm in the U.S., offers another. "The meaning of red and blue are so entrenched in our society," she says. "Purple is representative of not deciding." Which may explain why pundits from Keith Olbermann to Bill O'Reilly have been sporting purple ties during the election season...
...course, I don’t think I did explain how fiction works,” Harvard professor James Wood told an overflowing room of Cambridge locals, students, and fans at the Harvard Bookstore last night, while discussing his latest book “How Fiction Works.” “In my defense, I did not want the book to be called ‘How Fiction Works,’” Wood, who is also a literary critic for The New Yorker, joked. In fact, Wood’s intended title for the book?...
...bill’s journey from draft to federal law has always been my favorite. Harvard has a very different process for passing a bill, and by a bill I mean a change in policy. Unfortunately the administration has not yet come up with a helpful song to explain it, but this somewhat convoluted process can facilitate important discussion as long as everyone involved with it is candid about his or her views from the outset. In addition, Dean of the College, Evelyn Hammonds has both the perspective of a faculty member and a background in administration at the Provost?...
...missing opium might also be lost during smuggling or processing, or be stashed everywhere from Kandahar to Turkey - even Western Europe," says Paul Smyth, head of the Operational Studies Program of the Royal United Services Institute in London. Still, few law-enforcement and drug officials believe these factors would explain all the missing opium, leaving the Taliban's intentions for its stockpiles a mystery...
...good news is that you don't need a Ph.D. in climatology to understand what needs to be done. If you can grasp the bathtub analogy, you can understand how to stop global warming. The burden is on scientists to better explain in clear English the dynamics of the climate system, and how to affect it. (Sterman says that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark report last year was "completely inadequate" on this score.) As for the rest of us, we should try to remember that sometimes common sense isn't a match for science...