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...puppets could have issues? Sure, Kermit and Miss Piggy had their tiffs; but when I was growing up, the Muppets mostly just searched for buried treasure or traveled to outer space. Now, however, a group of Muppet-esque puppets (spawned by Crank Yanker’s creators, Jackhole) are gaining center stage in a new Kayne West-produced TV show, tentatively titled “Alligator Boots,” in which they tackle such pressing contemporary issues as teen pregnancy and—more importantly—what the heck to do with your precious little one when...
...comedy from the 70s, yet it is very relevant of the issues today,” Biggers says. “I think this piece, for me, is about the presence the media has in our lives.” While Biggers believes that the media uses people to gain power, he also thinks people use media to gain power...
There’s even a kind of respect for the fellows, down on their luck as they are. They’re almost anachronisms, like highwaymen, egoistic outlaws from a distant past. They see an opportunity for gain, and take it; they are Overmen, perpetually transcending the mundane. Maybe that’s the best reason for bailing the financial industry out: They’re exciting—like modern-day pirates, only better. James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
Kennedy School Professor Robert D. Putnam, an authority on social capital best known for his essay “Bowling Alone,” will gain a hand with his research on civic involvement, thanks to a grant given to the Kennedy School of Government’s Saguaro Seminar, by the Corporation for National and Community Service...
...material. Yet at Harvard Law School and its peer institutions, the letter grading system provides far less in the way of usefulness. Any student capable of graduating from HLS has already demonstrated a high level of proficiency and drive simply by generating the grades and scores necessary to gain admission and completing the coursework while there. Law students are admitted as adults, not naïve adolescents, and their past records speak volumes to their capabilities. The answer to the question of which graduates possess basic competence is simple: they all do. In this rarefied context, the need for quantitative...