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University President Drew G. Faust continually has expressed her intent to funnel support into the arts at Harvard, including theater. But a number of students involved in theater have expressed concern about the prospect of a Dramatic Arts concentration, explaining that it may restrict the creative freedom they currently enjoy...
...Chilean HEU have fallen into terrorist hands? The afternoon before the earthquake, Paul Simons, the U.S. ambassador to Chile, pointed out that local criminal gangs ship Bolivian cocaine to the U.S. from Chilean ports and that "we recognize that Chile and its ports could be used as a funnel for other illicit materials." At the time, of course, he could not know that four days later a bomb's worth of HEU would be on its way to one of those ports - and in the middle of a national catastrophe...
...Bilateral ties had already been strained by China's reluctance to seek a deal on climate change during the Copenhagen conference in December. Then came last month's decision by U.S. Internet giant Google to shutter the censored search engine it ran in China and instead funnel mainland searches to an unfiltered site in Hong Kong. And all of this was underscored by growing tension over currency issues between the two key players in the world economy...
Murray also discussed “rethinking” introductory courses in applied math, computer science, and engineering sciences, and said she supported offering a class similar to Life Sciences 1a and 1b—staple courses that funnel undergraduates into those departments...
...hills, from which bracing floods of chi allegedly flow, accumulating in the sea in great reservoirs of bottomless luck. Many of the principal buildings famously adhere to feng shui principles - using the expensive realignment of an escalator here, or the positioning of a highly costed fountain there - to supposedly funnel the chi out of the air and into the interiors, where its course is further channeled by canals of furniture. The Hong Kong Tourism Board even promotes feng shui tours to visitors, and everywhere you turn, there's always some crackpot heiress, anxious taipan or socialite architect wanting to talk...