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...fifth-grade teacher must have experienced an unusual level of confusion as she prepared seating charts and memorized names 15 years ago. Our class of 25 had two “Heidi H??s, a difficulty exacerbated by the fact that they shared not only the same appearance (blonde, blue-eyed) but also the same full name: there was Heidi Hansen, who played violin, and Heidi Hanson, the gymnast. In high school, the main office dealt with the problem matter-of-factly by announcing them on the intercom as “Heidi Hansen...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky | Title: Matters of the Heart(land) | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

Born in Lyons, France, in 1924, Jarre made his way to Paris after the war and contributed incidental music to theater pieces. In 1951, Georges Franju, maker of uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score H??tel des Invalides, his study of wounded veterans; it was the first of many Jarre pieces (The Longest Day, The Train, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) that found a sepulchral undertone in martial music. Old masters like William Wyler (The Collector) and Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz) and Young Turks like Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction) and Jerry Zucker (Ghost) called on Jarre to provide music that was subtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maurice Jarre | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

Handling that influx is what concerns the planners most at l'h??tel de ville, the city hall. Paris got a dose of overload when Japanese visitors, armed with the supercharged yen, arrived by the 747-load in the 1980s. Now think about Chinese and Indians arriving in similar numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much Greater Paris | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...fans in attendance at the Harvard women’s basketball (15-8, 7-2 Ivy) game against Princeton (9-14, 4-5 Ivy) last Friday, then you missed arguably the most exciting game the Lavietes Pavilion has seen all school year. The giant “H?? that lies prominently at half court almost seemed to stand for “Houdini” rather than “Harvard” in the second half of the game...

Author: By Justin W. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Comeback Thrills Home Crowd | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...generates high levels of C02.” According to the publication, one Google search emits 7 grams of carbon dioxide—about half of the 15 grams discharged when boiling water in a kettle.Later that day, Google’s Senior Vice President of Operations Urs H??lzle quickly responded to the article with a post on the official Google blog. “One Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2,” he wrote. He added that a search uses “about the same amount of energy that your...

Author: By Ellen X. Yan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fellow Caught Up in Media Controversy | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

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