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...dozens of dump trucks and backhoes rumble amid boulders and mud to prepare an access road to the span, scheduled to be completed this month. "It's good not having to worry about finding work and getting paid," says a laborer named Yang, who is helping construct the Chongqing Grand Theater, a magnificent music and opera house being built on a river headland within sight of the Chaotianmen bridge. "There are so many public projects going on, there will always be a place...
...Life of the Grand Old Party...
...still possible that Gen Ed will spark some worthwhile spring-cleaning and a proliferation of creative, new courses. But, either way, upon graduation, the onus is upon students to decide what our education means as a whole—and to realize that, far from being some kind of grand fortress as its end, a Harvard degree is just one of many strange, blinking lighthouses we will sail past on the way.—Juliet S. Samuel ’09 is a Social Studies concentrator affiliated with Eliot House...
...conversation evolved into a discussion of how lucky they feel to care so much about each other’s interests and passions. Downer had been planning on proposing in Jamaica and had asked Owings’ parents for permission beforehand. He knew that Owings did not want a grand gesture and thought the moment was right. Their wedding this July will certainly befit their Harvard beginnings: the ceremony will take place at Memorial Church, with the reception at the downtown Harvard Club...
...night (800-634-3450); the Excalibur will run you $31 (877-750-5464); Luxor starts at $55 (877-386-4658); the Monte Carlo ups it by just a buck at $56 per night (888-529-4828); New York New York has rooms for $65 (866-815-4365); the MGM Grand has $75 rack rates (877-880-0880); and the Mirage comes in under a C-note, with rates at $99 per night...