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...Lowin ’07. They convinced a few high-profile Harvard blogs—Cambridge Common, Red Ivy, and the IOP Forum blog among them—to relocate to the site, and an in-house discussion about the then-exploding Larry Summers controversy, Summersville, became a focal point for campus-wide discussion of the administrative goings...
...cooperate with the city. “This is about using the best practices,” she told University representatives yesterday. “Make it happen because it’s the right thing to do.” The Harvard project has long been a focal point for community resentment. Permission to develop the property on Cowperthwaite Street and another plot along the Charles River came only after a long series of negotiations between the city, residents, and the University—and after Harvard agreed to provide 36 units of affordable housing and a public park...
...huge windfall reaped by Thaksin's family. The Prime Minister says Shin was sold because "the kids would like their dad to devote himself completely to politics." Still, says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University, "the Shin deal could become a tipping point. It's become the focal point that could bring [Thaksin] down." Certainly, the sale to Temasek has helped build the crowds at Sondhi's rallies...
...electrical discharge patterns. A growing volume of research suggests that music may hardwire the brain, building links between the two hemispheres. Exactly how this process works is still unclear, but such brain stimulation can lead to peaks of performance and awareness. Why should Mozart's music be the focal point of this debate, rather than other classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven or Chopin? Many sounds, from Hindu chanting to the noise of the surf breaking on a shore, are believed to be therapeutic. As for classical music, Gérard Mortier, the director of the Paris opera...
...been said that celebrities serve the same function that ancient gods did, but there is a difference. People created gods to explain things--lightning, death--that they could not understand. We worship celebrities because they're simple focal points in a world in which we have too much information. As Witness preaches--See It, Film It, Change It--the most valuable commodity in ending misery is not money or even will but attention. And attention is the celebrigod's lightning bolt. If the most fatuous celebrity plants himself near a problem, he may embarrass himself. But at least someone will...