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...It’s been a bit of a struggle this entire time to define what we are,” said Carrie E. Andersen ’08, who helped plan the weekend. “We sort of say that we’re on an edutainment model.” Although ROFLCon was created largely through the efforts of Harvard students, the conference was forced to move down Mass. Ave to MIT due to space issues at Harvard. According to Hwang, the College could not accommodate the 500 registered attendees and guests. Harvard College rules would also...
...glitter and gold on Friday in the Bright Hockey Center for the annual Eleganza fashion show. In front of a crowd estimated at nearly 2,000, with a sold-out VIP section, 49 students paraded down the runway modeling a colorful array of getups. The theme of this year’s show, hosted by BlackCAST (Community and Student Theater), was “Elements of Desire,” with four acts centered on Earth, Fire, Water, and Air motifs. Each scene displayed a different color scheme: Earth models wore brown-tones, Fire models wore red-tones, Water models...
...acknowledged that they all benefited from slavery and took steps to apologize for their pasts.“I think we’re right at the tipping point,” said Brophy, the Alabama expert on civil rights litigation. “Brown has given us a model of how institutions can have the courage and wisdom to undertake these self-investigations of their pasts.”THE LEGACY OF SLAVERYWhether Harvard has an obligation to formally apologize for its past ties to slavery is a matter of debate. Andrew B. Schlesinger...
...Furthermore, from 1970 to 2005 the use of ethanol in our energy mix has averted the emission of 644 million tons of CO2, the equivalent of Canada's annual emissions. When compared with the unsustainable energy patterns used in major developed countries, the Brazilian experience can be considered a model. Contrary to what the article claims, ethanol has been a central part of the solution. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Ambassador of Brazil to the U.S., Washington...
...scale-up the dramatic success of Malawi, a famine-prone country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and high-yield seeds. Malawi's harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion in all. Such a fund could fight hunger as effectively as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is controlling those diseases...