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...arrested in June 2005 on charges of open and gross lewdness when Out of Town News employees called the police after seeing Ora dancing naked in the Square pit, protesting the commercialization of Christmas. The charges were originally dropped because the Cambridge District Court ruled that dancing naked is constitutional under “expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,” according to the ruling...
...year ago, then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said freshmen would vacate Mass. Hall to make room for central administration office space...
...small and it doesn’t have enough critical mass,” Gross said at the time...
...Perhaps it’s not surprising that (like “The Pursuit of Happyness”) American audiences loved 21. The film scored a relative victory at the box office, pulling in $24 million on its opening weekend. Presently, its U.S. gross climbs beyond twice that. Whether the film would have done as well embracing the idiosyncrasies of its real-life prototype, we won’t ever know—though, given the trend toward quirky American filmmaking, it might have been worth a shot...
...measure has its roots in the Great Depression and World War II. First the priority was tracking the ups and downs (mostly downs) of the business cycle in the 1930s. Then military planners needed a better way to assess production capacity. The result was gross national product (GNP), which after the war soon became the standard means of keeping economic score. It was replaced in 1991 by GDP, which measures production in the U.S. as opposed to production by Americans, but the basic idea is the same. The concept conquered the world--with Germany deserving special mention as surely...