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...manager from Coral Springs, Fla., spent five years and a million dollars building a home theater. His setup includes 14 speakers, 16 amplifiers and 400 amps of current--more power than entire homes consume. "The system makes the speakers and walls disappear," says Messer. "You could get seasick watching Master and Commander in my theater...
...What we do with the area, and what Harvard does with their master plan has to be coordinated in a way that facilitates dialogue,” said Shen, whose agency oversees development projects for the city. “If you do these things in independent segments, the final effect will not be as cohesive as when we do it together...
...decision came after dozens of meetings between Harvard officials and Allston residents that were a part of a special review process before the University gains approval on its new institutional master plan, which forecasts development for the next half-century...
...that the University will begin construction on the science complex this spring, Harvard will focus on its 50-year master plan, which currently includes plans to relocate the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health across the river...
...slightly, and the notion of experience is liable to crack and run all over. If knowing the system is so useful, then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term. Instead, many Presidents lose effectiveness as they go along. Lyndon Johnson, for example: his experience as a master legislator no doubt helped as he steered his historic civil rights and welfare agenda to passage. By the end of two years as President, however, "he was out of gas," recalls Johnson aide Harry McPherson. The longer Johnson was in the Oval Office, the more feckless his presidency became...