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...Hawaii will enact excerpts from his plays. As part of this project, a Serbian youth group will perform Romeo and Juliet. How will they respond in a country so scarred by its own history of tribal divisions? Life has taught me a hard lesson about the power and impact of that play: my father, who died in 1970, banished me from his life because I played Juliet in a school production that dared to confront the prejudices of my people...
...involve a complete overhaul of the interior of each of the 12 houses while preserving their historically significant facades, and will be guided by a joint student-faculty committee. We applaud the University’s approval of this expensive but much-needed project, which will have a profound impact on the experience of Harvard’s students. These renovations have the potential to combat many of the largest deficiencies currently plaguing the student body. In particular, the University should focus on addressing the layout of bedrooms, structural updates, and social space. Living conditions stand to improve greatly...
...land. “If Harvard has institutional uses for the property, they would have to vet it through the community and task force first,” Shumaker said. Harvard Allston Task Force Chairman Ray Mellone also said that it was too early to determine the impact that a possible deal would have on the Allston community. “It is entirely possible that Harvard will own every piece of land in Allston within the next century,” said Mellone. “But it really depends on what they do with it and whether...
...decision-making. The exercise in priming was part of Kahneman’s talk on judgment and intuition yesterday in Yenching Auditorium. Despite being a psychologist—and never having studied economics—Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work’s impact on the field. Tuesday’s presentation was the first of three talks to be given by Kahneman this week as part of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative’s 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series. Kahneman opened the evening by presenting a series of examples of persistent flaws in intuition...
...problem is that those backing the bans seem to be confused as to the true impact of these flimsy sacks. Alderman Sam Shropshire, sponsor of a bill to ban them in Annapolis, Md., last year (the ban was rejected in Novermber) compares plastic bag use to DDT: “It’s wrong, it’s immoral,” he says, “They’re inundating our environment...