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...death, during which he drafted his will and bequeathed his 300-book library and half of his estate to a small college in Newtown that became the famed research institution in Cambridge. “My hope is for the students to find in John Harvard a role model, the opportunity to be altruistic, and most importantly, to give,” Van Devere said. A dearth of biographical information about Harvard has left dramatists like Van Devere with a unique opportunity. There have been few attempts to dramatize the life of this Puritan reverend in the last 400 years...
...unique atmosphere. A number of other Square “fixtures,” including the Brattle theatre, have had to be saved by generous patrons. The sort of “surgical intervention” employed to open the Market in the square should serve as a model for HRES and Harvard in the future to preserve and attract the types of businesses that give the Square its offbeat ambience. Besides being good for student life, such a policy would hopefully preserve what’s left of Harvard Square’s quirky character that makes...
...creepy prospect of turning your life into one big direct-mail campaign. But Facebook's Zuckerberg sees the new model as just another form of word-of-mouth. "Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a friend," he says. To allay privacy concerns, Facebook makes sharing your shopping habits optional, but it's betting that for the bare-it-all generation growing up on social networks, broadcasting what you buy will seem as natural as posting the details of a bitter breakup--or what you ate for breakfast...
There is no guarantee, however, that people will embrace the advertising models that Facebook and MySpace are pushing. "How do you serve up ads in such a fashion that your young, hip audiences aren't turned off by it?" asks venture capitalist Jim Timmins of Pagemill Partners. Google faced these same worries in 2004 when it launched context-sensitive ads inside its e-mail program Gmail. When the company went public later that year, skeptics voiced similar concerns about the viability of an ad-supported model for its search engine. Google now trades at more than $600 a share...
...thought she was way ahead of her time, she was an extraordinary model for women,” said Kitty Dukakis in an interview after the event. “As my mother used to say, ‘without being obnoxious about it, there was something very refined and special about...