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...terminal with flowing buttresses reminiscent of desert tents, points out that Arabic sources of design harmony were more important to him than Asian ones. While Singapore's top-rated Changi Airport is praised by Malaysian feng shui guru Joey Yap for entry roads and fronting lawns that properly gather up pools of surrounding qi, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore states categorically that it "does not take feng shui into account" in airport designs...
...students prepared to gather in the Yard Tuesday for a sixth day of a hunger strike in support of higher wages for security guards, the protesters announced that one of the strikers had been hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...
Every Tuesday afternoon, 35 of the College’s top administrators and faculty gather in Lamont Forum Room to deliberate the fates of undergraduates whose lives behind Harvard’s ivy gates lie in the balance. With a red and yellow “Meeting In Progress. Please Do Not Disturb” sign hanging from the door, the room houses the Administrative Board—the committee charged with enforcing undergraduate academic regulations and standards of social conduct...
...students are applying for a few hundred places at a top school like M.I.T., admissions officers can't plumb the depths of each applicant's soul. So they use test scores. Employers looking to hire young people for their first full-time job can't stop to gather and judge all the information they might want in deciding who is likely to be a disciplined and skillful employee. So they take a shortcut and go for college graduates. Buffett doesn't need to require a college degree because what he is looking for can be measured in ways that...
...Yardfest and the Harvard Carnival, the CEB would be better advised to turn its attention and focus to funding to the litany of opportunities for community-building that exist on a weekly basis: in the new pub, the houses, and wherever a group of friends and classmates can gather for diversion. Instead of huddling with blockmates in front of a stage, for example, the CEB might sponsor a smaller event in the pub catered to fans of a niche musical genre. In a smaller setting, those fans could meet each other and form friendships based on mutual interest. Not only...