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...Outreach programs will no longer be travel-based, they'll utilize "modern telecommunications technologies...
...Harvard College Admissions Office is shifting the emphasis of its outreach activities from travel-based interactions to ones relying on better and more frequent use of modern communications technologies. This shift will not change the geographic coverage of admissions outreach. However, some of the local outreach around the country and world will be achieved through an even closer collaboration between the Cambridge-based College admissions team and the Harvard Clubs and alumni already distributed around the world...
...there were plenty of challenges for scripters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who wrote MI3 and the new generation of Transformers epics, and have worked with Abrams on his TV shows. Their mission was to graft the characters from the original show onto a modern sensibility. Creator Gene Roddenberry was fond of moral and political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews...
Jordan is the ideal setting to return to these sensitive themes, home to the royal Hashemite lineage that traces back to Mohammed, and a modern tradition of religious tolerance. This was also where a group of Islamic scholars from around the world first launched a response to Regensburg, which led to the creation of an official Muslim-Catholic dialogue that kicked off with a summit at the Vatican in November on the religions' shared principles of love of God and love of neighbor...
...Manhattan's most ambitious new player has to be Co. (pronounced "company") in Chelsea, whose crisp white tables and pale wood-paneled interior serve as a modern palette for an equally contemporary menu. Partially owned by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Co., located in the Chelsea neighborhood, owes its true buzz - and bona fides - to chef Jim Lahey, who owns the beloved Sullivan Street Bakery, a New York City institution...