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...civic-minded businesspeople. These are smart folk who know what buttons to press and levers to pull. Already, by going to court, they have stopped the government from reclaiming even more land from what little harbor we have left. Now they are fighting for a host of causes, from fewer skyscrapers and roads to a minimum wage for low-skilled workers to patients' rights to better education for underprivileged children. With the rich getting richer, these ngos are needed more than ever to speak and act for the disadvantaged...
Like a bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...Guinea-Bissau) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (a collection of islands that sounds like it also could be an up-and-coming lounge act). But East Timor's problems are compounded by the fact that its population of just under 1 million is commonly referred to by no fewer than four names. Even though less than 10% of the population speaks Portuguese, the ruling government decided to follow in the footsteps of Brazil, Cape Verde and Mozambique by making the former colonial European tongue East Timor's official language. On East Timorese passports, the country is labeled Timor-Leste...
...many shows at Harvard can boast a cast and crew upwards of 150 people. Even fewer can say that they gathered that number from the Boston community as well as the Harvard campus and brought them together within the confines of a dining hall to serenade students while they studied. This season’s Lowell House Opera (LHO) production of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” can boast all that, but it is in some ways paradoxical. Despite assembling an immense group of participants, most of whom are not even Harvard students...
...year can be a wrenching experience, particularly for students on financial aid: Do you buy an expensive course pack, or do you save the money earmarked by the Financial Aid Office as “personal expenses” for other opportunities during the semester? In the hopes that fewer Harvard students will have to choose between being able to socialize with friends and buying course books, we support the proposed Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP).Harvard has been a national trendsetter in the area of financial aid. Largely thanks to the nascent Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), Harvard?...