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...instead of TAs, and “final clubs” instead of the much more universally recognized “frats.” What else is there to know, right? Wrong. FM digs into Harvard’s Archives to pull up some of the lesser-known Harvard slang. Take a look: 1) LoHo – Lowell House 2) Clubbie – a member of a final club 3) River Rat – one who lives in a River House 4) The Dump – Dunster House 5) A Poonster...
...Championship (UFC), has become all that professional boxing had ceased to be: well-run, well-marketed, with fighters who are seemingly happy to sacrifice their bodies and craniums for glory and relatively low pay. Elite gladiators endure punishment for somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000 a fight, the lesser-known pugilists receiving fractions of that amount...
...prevention of the disorder “to be the most significant health advance since small pox” eradication. “I thought, ‘How could we not know about this!’” Riedl recalls. And informing the public about lesser-known subjects—such as IDD or POWs who choose not to return home—is part of the festival’s mission. Documentary “can illuminate the topics in a way that hearing a lecture can’t,” says Erica...
...find little new in King's sound, if predictable, analysis of Machiavelli's later writings, which show an evolution in his thinking. In Discourses, Machiavelli demonstrated a more idealistic outlook, embracing personal liberty, republicanism and good government. King's real achievement comes in his careful appraisal of Machiavelli's lesser-known works - the poems and bawdy plays that provided an outlet for his lascivious imagination and wit. In the play Clizia he mocked the folly of an older man pursuing a younger woman. In the novella The Fable of Belfagor, he speared matrimony by having the protagonist choose the torments...
...years won't hear anything radically new, though the honor roll of experts interview in the film - sages like David Suzuki and unexpected wonks like former CIA director James Woosley - deliver bite-size, sometimes haunting bits of wisdom. The best is in the first quarter of the film, when lesser-known environmentalists like Paul Hawker and Janine Bonyus explain why it seems to be instinctual for human beings to treat nature like garbage. (Short answer: we've come to believe that technology has made us separate from and superior to the planet that still sustains every aspect of our lives...