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...part of the Kennedy School of Government. Under the leadership of Assistant Professor of Public Policy Todd L. Pittinsky, we conduct quantitative studies of intergroup “liking” in the laboratory and in the field. Our research on allophilia—a term derived from the Greek word meaning “liking,” or loving, of the other—seeks a scientific understanding of what makes some individuals identify and support groups that are not, by nature at least, their own. While scientists have become very sophisticated at understanding prejudice, its antonym...
...perhaps choose not to acknowledge—is that gloom is en vogue for a reason: happy people are boring. Harvard students aren’t all depressed because there is something wrong with them: they’re depressed because there is something to them. The Greeks had it right. They held that the smartest of men had the tendency to become the most depressed. Melancholia, the Greek term for “black bile,” was said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln?...
...cross containing relics of martyred saints, but he can swear like a Quentin Tarantino character--and those who peg him as a reactionary may be surprised to learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia, were captivated by the ancient Maya...
...quality of the filming,” said Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05. Prominently displayed on the site is a music video, “Afroditi,” produced by Peter C. Shields ’09. The segment features Shields’ Greek and English vocals on top of a techno beat and includes a plot involving a dominatrix, played by Simona Bartlett, a student at Johnson & Wales University, who poisons her man and then strips into clubbing clothes in time to seduce Shields in a steamy dance number. On top of regular...
...know too many haters who refuse to watch HBO’s mega-popular Greek-tragedy-masquerading-as-a-mob-story, which begins its sixth and final season this Sunday, March 12, at 9 p.m.. So, haters, I want to reach out to you. If you’re skeptical about the show, believe me—I can relate...