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This is some of the best real estate on campus. It is beautiful, close to classrooms, and next door to the other river Houses. The area is more closely knit with the heart of the campus than is Currier House—or, for that matter, Mather House...
This year, it’s Harvard that has the closely-knit senior class that stayed on campus through the summer and led workouts, as the Big Red’s did in 2002. And it’s the Crimson that’s coming off an overtime loss in the previous ECAC title game and cameo appearance in the NCAAs—two things that happened to Cornell two years ago and motivated it last season...
There is promise, however, at the intersection between technology and social capital, where flash mobs were born. Telephones and the Internet, unlike the passive medium of television, are both used actively and could potentially knit us more closely together. Our society is in a giant period of experimentation, and we may be inventing the technological building blocks of new social connections. For example, Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs—organized in the same way as flash mobs, but with more serious intentions—details how these active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves...
Carnivale leaves enough loose threads to knit an XXL sweater, and from them it might weave a story that really does defy expectations. But for a show that prides itself on strangeness, it is the most conventional HBO drama in years. If you took away the nudity and profanity from The Wire and Six Feet Under, they still couldn't air on network TV: their morality is too vague, their characters are too complex. Clean up Carnivale, and you'd have something not unlike ABC's spooky Miracles from last season. Carnivale's myth and Manichaeism may lure viewers inside...
...never been in a group before like the offensive line,” Smith said. “I don’t believe you can get a closer, tight-knit group of guys than this group...