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...some universities' special Match Day traditions: "On the third Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer's results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into...
...about the economy, they think about jobs, college, retirement. Sure, the stock market affects them in the long run - but so do job security and the threat of getting wiped out by health-care bills. When CNBC considers the economy, it means Wall Street's numbers that day, that hour, that minute. CNBC may pay lip service to the long term, but it has the time horizon of a fruit...
...easy to overlook these faults - and Kings' taste for melodramatic cheese, slathered with an overheated operatic score - when McShane is onstage. But Egan's David is an upstanding stiff, and when Egan gets a McShanian monologue at the end of the two-hour pilot, he sounds ridiculous. The subplots involving Jack and Gilboa's gilded nightlife play like a bad marriage of The Tudors and Gossip Girl...
...half-hour allotted for tea and cookies before the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences lost some of its luster yesterday. Instead of the thick, glossy paper typically used for the minutes of the past month’s Faculty meeting, the most recent documents stacked on the tables were printed on conventional thin stock. “Today is the last day you’ll see a wide variety of printed material available to us in the Faculty meeting,” FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said in his first piece of news regarding...
...Student Music Performance Series, organized by the Harvard Arts Museums Education Department. They performed Bach, Vivaldi, Bartók, and Telemann in galleries devoted to the “Western Tradition, Antiquity to 1900.” On five more Friday afternoons this spring, Harvard student musicians will hold hour-long performances with various pieces suited to different galleries of the Sackler. The series aims not only to inform the viewing of visual art from a musical angle but also to redefine the museum experience for students...