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Former club President Gary M. Cooney ’05 also spoke of his personal experience working at a Chinese orphanage and his joy when one child from that orphanage found a foster family in Atlanta...
...agreement between Harvard and the City of Cambridge to increase Harvard’s voluntary payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) was an unfortunate step in the midst of cooling relations between Harvard and city landowners. We are glad that Harvard has been making a stronger effort to foster agreeable relations with Cambridge residents over housing issues, yet we are hesitant to condone Harvard’s agreement to renegotiate a higher PILOT with the City’s government...
...return to 2 a.m. party hours may seem like a small difference, but it is a big step towards realizing the social scene Harvard students crave. Campus-wide events not only foster community, they also provide more interesting events for partygoers drained by room parties. An extra hour keeps this spirit going a little longer. If it reflects a more productive dialogue between Harvard and Cambridge over student issues, as we believe it does, then we hope this hour of extra spirit will soon be multiplied many times over. A few more moments covered in foam may be only...
...many books have been written about him as by him. A Taiwanese newspaper has even suggested that his visage may one day grace a Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence. Others Murakami admires, he has admitted, include Fitzgerald, Carver, David Foster Wallace and Tim O'Brien, all of them Americans. Indeed, Murakami's fondness for U.S. pop-cultural references has moved local critics to complain that he worships the West at the expense of things Japanese. Guilty, with an explanation. As Kafka demonstrates, Murakami's Japan is a land of truck stops...
...woman in Germany, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin last year and is already a box office hit across the Continent. Hollywood has been cherry-picking Germany's outstanding talents for its own insatiable industry. German director Robert Schwentke is making Flightplan, a transatlantic hijack thriller starring Jodie Foster. And Eichinger has teamed with fellow German Tom Tykwer, director of the international hit, Run Lola Run, to make Perfume, based on the award-winning novel by German author Patrick Süskind, about an 18th century serial killer who tries to mask the stench of decadent French society with...