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...Jimmy Carter talked endlessly of "reinventing government." He took the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and turned it into two departments. Then there was Ross Perot, the presidential candidate who babbled about opening the hood of a car and tinkering with the innards. President Bill Clinton showed his lack of interest by assigning the subject to Vice President Al Gore. And now there is Romney, who told the Journal that--depending on the data, of course, and whatever McKinsey recommends--he would create a layer of "super-Cabinet" positions so that the President doesn't have "30 direct reports...
...carefully scores the film, and he does an excellent job of capturing Rush’s internal musical monologue. Rush processes his emotions and his surroundings into dreamy harmony: it’s possible to feel the music turn everyday noises into a symphony. The film’s lack of dialogue forces the audience to focus on Rush, Layla, and Louis’ emotions. Highmore speaks with the eerie directness and innocence of a five-year-old, which stresses his captivation with the world around him. Meyers’ brevity and brooding portrayal underscores his yearning for Layla. Besides...
...find that the networks are playing reruns. Insomniacs may just start counting sheep when they discover that the opening monologues of Jay Leno and David Letterman seem dated. And what’s this? Dennis Kucinich is on “The Colbert Report” again? The lack of fresh material in the world of entertainment is the result of a joint nationwide strike of the Writers Guild or America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West, two organizations who together represent almost all American film and television writers in collective bargaining. The two groups, collectively referred...
...being perfected. If anything, PPMs have only confirmed our sneaking suspicions about what a mercurial bunch of radio listeners we are. Radio signals may be everywhere, but don’t seem to make a lasting impression lately. Maybe after the beeper fad passes, radio stations will take this lack of attentiveness to heart.—Staff writer Kimberly E. Gittleson and contributing writer Evan L. Hanlon are the president and rock director of WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station. Gittleson can be reached at gittles@fas.harvard.edu...
...problem. Meng suggested that every department appoint a staff person to remind professors to send their book titles to the Coop and collect information on those books. Such a procedure already exists in the statistics department, Meng said. “I view this problem as more of a lack of teaching infrastructure,” he said.Dean of the Extension School Michael Shinagel, who is also vice-chair of the Coop’s board of directors, brought up concerns about the potential costs of such a program.“Chaos and dark night would reign at Harvard...