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...hour food joint is the nationally ubiquitous 7-Eleven?The Square is in serious disrepair. Harvard Square used to be a place where young hipsters could purusee Howl while a wannabe Dylan jammed at a café. Now, it’s starting to resemble a New Jersey mall. Overpriced Adidas clothing can be found anywhere; a movie theater willing to show a double feature of Rushmore and the Royal Tenenbaums cannot. The fun is being drained from the Square, and if there is anything Harvard students need help with, it’s having fun. If things don?...
Savvy viewers think they can spot a Sundance film a mall away: the liberal viewpoint, the slow pulse, the precise and subdued acting. No question that, in the 25 years since Robert Redford founded his film institute in Utah, the "Sundance film" has become its own genre. This selection of 10 films spawned at the institute or launched at its festival provides a corrective of sorts, showing that the range is wide and imposing. You can still savor the romantic desperation of sex, lies, and videotape, the working-class wit of Clerks, the community of self-aware losers in American...
...could be consequential for museums and universities across the U.S.LAYING DOWN THE LAWThe plaintiffs are a group of nine U.S. citizens. Five—including Jenny Rubin, for whom the suit is named—were injured in a September 4, 1997 triple suicide bombing at a crowded pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. The other four are family members who said they suffered emotional harm. The plaintiff’s 2001 suit accused Iran of providing training and support for the terrorist group Hamas, which claimed responsibility for the bombing.Four years later, in the suit filed against Harvard, the plaintiffs claim...
...Though the Arsenal was once as large as 130 acres, the Pentagon had reduced the site significantly. In 1968, it sold 55 acres to Watertown, which the town redeveloped into the Arsenal Mall and neighboring park. Due to the complexity of the cleanup effort, the EPA split what remained of the site in 1988 into three parts, one of which was the Arsenal buildings that Harvard now owns...
...gamblers’ inhibitions about risking money.” Professor Stilgoe reports that many Environmental Studies graduates are presently working in advertising, an industry in which a talent for artful manipulation is highly prized.Architects also benefit from an understanding of how environment shapes behavior. Professor Stilgoe uses shopping mall design as an example: “If you walk through a shopping mall concourse you’ll notice large groups of people stopping and gathering in spaces with raised ceilings. Designers understand that people tend to congregate in spaces with high ceilings, and they place them strategically...