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...with the length of the meeting—the UC’s last for the year—nearing two hours, the proceedings were brought to an abrupt end when Financial Committee Chair Alexander N. “Zander” Li ’08 broke the quorum necessary for voting, departing the Harvard Hall conference room where the meeting was held in protest over lagging debate on the UC floor...
...work,” said Peter Zhou ’07, adding that he has on occasion studied in Lamont until 6 a.m. “People have different studying patterns, and this definitely is accomodating,” Dilshoda Z. Yergasheva ’09 said. But Chiazotam N. Ekekezie ’08 said she began to avoid Lamont since it moved to the 24/5 schedule. “You’ll see people who sleep here, wake up in the morning, and have a bottle of mouthwash,” Ekekezie said. “People...
...Away is essentially Beverly Hills; the first villain was widely seen as a stand-in for then Disney chief Michael Eisner). Fairy-tale parodies are safe rebellions, spoofing formulas and feel-good endings while still providing the ride into the sunset that pays the bills. In Happily N'Ever After, a wizard runs a "Department of Fairy-tale-land Security," seeing to it that each story--Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, etc.--hews to the book. His bored apprentice Mambo articulates the strategy of his movie and its peers: "I just wish we could mix it up a little. Make it a little...
...Youssou N'Dour, the great Senegalese singer and political activist, started off the evening with a set of remarkable songs, culminating in a lyrical ode to Africa. Jimmy Wales, inventor of Wikipedia, met with Richard Dawkins, the biologist and outspoken atheist, to explain why Dawkins' attempts to edit Wikipedia entries kept being rejected. Philip Rosedale, creator of the popular Second Life, a virtual world online, crisscrossed the cocktail floor in search of Suzanne Vega, the noted singer, whom he had met on Second Life but never in person. Each table was a microcosm of the TIME 100 issue, with leaders...
...Youssou N'Dour--one of this year's 100--played a spellbinding set to start off the dinner...