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...workers, with the Hutterites, the religious sect that splits off a new community every time an existing one approaches the same number. This would be a "So what?" coincidence if he didn't also connect both of them to an argument by a British anthropologist that 150 is the maximum number of people whom anyone can really know intimately enough to bond with. Bunches no bigger than that are the best incubators for "contagious messages," Gladwell writes, leaping from there to explain how tight-knit book-discussion clubs talked up the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading the Word | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...broadening the opportunities for student playwrights, the Student Playwrights Project was recently organized. Cary McClelland '02 is heading the endeavor and, in his view, the Student Playwrights Project is an "an attempt to provide student writers on campus the opportunity to stage their work with minimum effort and maximum publicity...

Author: By Yvonne Garcia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playwrights in Residence | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

Surveying the policy landscape through such a scope might finally help us move beyond the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, (and now Don't Harass) muddle. With it in place, the new batch of military anti-harassment programs should have a better chance of operating at maximum success...

Author: By Boleslaw Z. Kabala, | Title: No Straight Solution | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

Kennedy School sociologist Christopher Jencks is a top Bradley advisor and gave the candidate $1,000, the maximum allowable by campaign finance rules...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Donate Election Dollars | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...Whatever the law requires, I will be making the maximum contribution," Simpson says. "He's a sharp, smart, savvy guy...someone to work on both sides of the aisle for the common good...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Donate Election Dollars | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

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