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...better or worse, Harvard’s actions greatly affect the surrounding community. Its employment of thousands of individuals from communities throughout Massachusetts and the university’s projects in the loci of those areas ensure a high level of codependence. The recently stalled initiative to build the Allston science complex, coupled with layoffs of Harvard employees, provides us with explicit proof that Harvard’s decisions have a significant effect on people within the school’s sphere of influence, regardless of whether those people are willing residents of that sphere. Meanwhile, Harvard occupies a peculiar...
...scene” is no longer in New York, where is it? Some argue that other cities like D.C. or Boston provide thriving alternative intellectual loci. (Legend has it that, challenged thusly in a newspaper editorial, one New Yorker fired off the epistolary missile: “May I suggest that the reason Boston is ‘overflowing’ with culture is the shallow vessel in which it is contained?”) Others propose that the very idea of an intellectual nucleus is outdated, with the collective energy of e-mail, blogs, and Twitter heralding a more...
...distinctive local flavor: a mixture of high-art and hooliganism that is peculiarly Mancunian. Although many of the 10 major acts premiering will later tour Paris, New York, Berlin and Tokyo, local organizers are keen to stress that Manchester is a natural heir to these more established cultural loci. "We are trying to draw on Manchester's inherent creativity," said Elizabeth Dawson, a public relations manager. "It's a city of firsts...
...might fear that House elections will become a popularity contest. But this is a good thing. The house benefits far more from having sociable (read: popular) people living in party suites than it does from having decent, quiet people in them. The House’s icons are the loci upon whom a vibrant House life can be built. And they tend to cluster in rooming groups that are ideal for these suites. If students think about their own Houses, they can identify a group of roommates that is ideally suited to live in a party suite, and most...
...hope that the Houses will never be in more than two loci: either (as now) the River and the Quad, or—in an imagined future—each side of the Charles,” Knowles wrote in an e-mail message...