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...compelling way that competes with—rather than dumbs down—departmental offerings. These new courses should attempt to provide students with intriguing and provocative interdisciplinary, issue-based and integrative courses that do not fit within existing departments. By doing so, they will allow students to gain insight into a specific scientific issue but also to think critically about the methods employed in the natural sciences...
...Adams House Drama Society pulls another off-beat offering out of its hat with Gasoline Rainbow, a tale of fast-living and the Lower East Side. WIth an insight into the lives of the degenerate classes, Gasoline Rainbow follows anti-lovers Christine and Gabe in a journey through “squatters, ketamine…kidnapping, credit card fraud, urban decay and subversion.” The first rule of Gasoline Rainbow is….Tickets $2. Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. Saturday May 1 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Adams House Kronauer Space...
...comfort level most executives never enjoy. There's also the cushion of being worth nearly $10 billion as heir to the privately held Fidelity juggernaut. "She's cool and calm, and she works hard every day," says Eric Kobren, editor of the independent newsletter Fidelity Insight. "She doesn't have that air of being one of the richest people in the world." Or of managing one of the world's largest pots of money, $893 billion in mutual-fund assets...
...great visionary, able to see into the future with far better accuracy than any of his competitors. His No. 1 talent is having the right idea at the right time. Where that kind of talent comes from is always a bit of a mystery, but I think his insight into our culture has to do with coming from Britain. Being new to a culture can make your observations more acute. Also, he was filled with determination and confidence that he would be a success, even while he was selling T shirts in California's Venice Beach. His reality-TV shows...
...camp it up; Hoges in hotpants! How does a comic pitch this potentially lively fall so dead in the water? It's tempting to blame young writer-director Dean Murphy. He has a sunny knack for observing gossip ricochet around a country town, but he lacks the worldly insight and satirical snap of a Wilder. When Vince and Ralph are instructed how to walk the talk ("Marilyn Monroe crossed with a bit of penguin"), it's like watching out-takes from In & Out and The Birdcage; later, when Postlethwaite's pit-bull-faced inspector comes to town...