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Take the government department’s annual Halloween party. The room is full of political scientists exercising their Harvard-groomed competitive streaks in an attempt to win the most creative costume contest. In the corner stand a couple of familiar looking TFs dressed as the gender gap, each one with stereotypical male or female complaints taped to every corner of their matching outfits. Professor Mansfield is chatting it up in the corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli...
Harvey’s basket gave Harvard some breathing room after Northeastern had narrowed the gap to three. The Harvard defense then held strong in the final minute, as it had the entire game. Before last night, Harvard had held its opponents to under 40 percent from the field and through the first half against Northeastern, the Crimson held the Huskies to 34 percent...
...final print. The problem with computer technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects—they are the special effects...
...That's how it would work in theory. But there remains an epic gap between the ideas being kicked around in Germany and the reality on the ground in a country where political power is proportionate to the number of armed men a contender can bring to the battlefield, the nature of their weapons and the identity and generosity of their foreign patrons. There's still a war raging, and reaching an agreement may be relatively simple compared with the challenge of implementing it. After all, the Northern Alliance commanders are the de facto rulers over much of Afghanistan until...
...Dean for Academic Services Joel C. Monell said that the new scholarships would fill a prominent gap by providing full multi-year awards to a number of doctoral students...