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...Salad Days” aren’t just dinners in the dining hall when the hot meal seems less than appealing. A phrase first penned by Shakespeare, “Salad Days” is also the title choreographer Sara Hook gave to the production comprised of seven of her short, satirical dances that took place Saturday evening at the Harvard Dance Center. In addition to being the Harvard Dance Program’s opening production this season, “Salad Days” was first show entirely made up of pieces choreographed by Hook...
...authors give seven (of course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty...
...Carnegie Hall? goes the old joke: Practice, practice, practice. The author, a FORTUNE editor and columnist, is not a big believer in innate talent. "Great performance is in our hands far more than most of us ever suspected," he writes in this provocative book. But ordinary practice isn't enough for extraordinary results. Colvin is a believer in "deliberate practice," highly mentally demanding activity designed to improve performance, which should be repeated a lot--with feedback. Oh, yeah, says Colvin, "It isn't much fun." But it delivers...
...between-the-sheets workouts tonight are a surefire way to guarantee we’re tired tomorrow. Indeed, some students are even engaging in sex on weeknights. Enter any House laundry room and you may find that the complementary condom boxes are not completely full. Enter any House dining hall, and you will find that at least one or two students has got the sex glow. This is positively disgusting. Sex aside, Harvard students cannot seem to learn to hit the books. With a vaguely worthwhile party occurring on campus nearly once every three to four weeks, Harvard students lack...
...Harvard’s facilities. Many are calling for dorms with cable television, common rooms with plasma televisions, and even sidewalks that aren’t covered in puddles when it rains. Food is also a popular topic, with many UC-hopefuls calling for extended brain breaks, longer dining hall hours, and more options for spending Crimson Cash...