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...opening of Aria is a significant achievement, signifying the end of an era in Vegas. The days of visionary auteurs bringing extravagant casino dreams to eager banks are over. Land is too expensive if you don't already own it. Banks are reticent to lend to developers who lack land equity and plenty of cold hard cash. MGM Mirage owns a larger parcel than CityCenter a few miles north of it on the Strip. It's unlikely the company will attempt a sequel. "I think people will quickly come to a conclusion that no one will ever top this," Murren...
...world leaders continue to arrive and make their presence felt (or lack thereof), this final week of the summit has witnessed bizarre contradictions of rhetoric and procedural protocol. Perhaps most disappointing has been the action of ‘the Group of 77,’ a consortium of over 100 small or developing nations with a vast range of geopolitical backgrounds, as well as agendas for the conference. Where the nations seem to agree is on the added difficulty facing poorer or more developing countries that would bear the brunt of many of the measures to mitigate climate change...
...China and the United States, the largest, most petulant children in this mess of a summit sandbox? Paradoxical practices have plagued their policies as well. China has publicly complained about the “lack of transparency” on the part of Denmark, the summit’s host nation, in its composition of the talks. Yet China has raised obstructive technical objections to specific lines of text throughout the week—eerily similar to the personal account of China’s actions at last year’s climate talks in Paris, shared with...
Hugo Van Vuuren ’07, a member of MenSpeakUp.org’s graduate board, agreed that many schools are not as proactive as Harvard in fighting gender inequality and sexual violence. MenSpeakUp.org was founded at Harvard in 2008 to address the lack of men advocating for gender equality...
Well Harvard, you're not alone. Eli's down on his luck, too. Find out about the lack of lovin' at Yale after the jump...