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...book of student commentary on the Curricular Review. He says his next step on the committee will be to tackle teaching fellow standards. Haddock-Riley campaign manager Josh Patashnik ’07 describes Haddock, who is also a First-Year Outdoor Program leader and was active in Harvard Model Congress, as a persuasive influence on the council.Recounting Haddock’s presentation on the blocking neighborhood idea to a group of House masters and administrators, Patashnik says, “all the House masters were skeptical. But after he went in there and made his report, everyone went...
...head of the Harvard Intercollegiate Model UN Team, Nicholas Vidnovic III, expressed disappointment with the outcome of the process. “When administrators make decisions without a lot of student input, it detracts from student satisfaction,” he said...
...Chernobyl nuclear disaster. "If Eastern Europe's crowds and intellectuals and trade union leaders 'won the third world war' it is, quite simply, because Mikhail Gorbachev let them," Judt writes. And East Europeans reaching for freedom sought not "untrammeled economic competition" - Judt's view of the "American social model" - but the softer welfare economics of Western Europe, where "you could have your socialist cake and eat it in freedom." Europeans' growing estrangement from their political élites and weary indifference to the proven advantages of the European Union, Judt suggests, haven't altered that preference. "For a long time America...
...people know the difference between a great idea and a great business model as intimately as Gross. As the founder of Idealab, the technology incubator, Gross has become a multimillionaire by funding such Internet start-ups as CitySearch, now owned by Ticketmaster, and Overture Services, the Web marketing firm that Yahoo! bought in 2003 for $1.6 billion. Idealab productions that, painfully, seemed great at the time--Petsmart.com and eToys.com- failed in two of the most dramatic flameouts in the dot-bomb collapse...
Possibly the most remarkable piece of Kongcraft, however, is the giant arms employed mainly to pick up and caress Jessica Lange, 27, the model-turned-actress who plays his inamorata, Dwan. The hands are 6 ft. across and the arms weigh 1,650 Ibs. each. They were designed and built separate from the complete Kong body and suspended from a crane in order to lift Lange 30 or 40 ft. into the air ... Like all the other Kong paraphernalia, they were not ready until the production was well along ... Finally the huge paws were ready, and [producer Dino] De Laurentiis...