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...have had quite enough, thank you, of the Undergraduate Council for one lifetime. Today, online voting finally begins in our student government’s presidential elections, and that means the end is nigh for the assault of campaigning we have lately suffered.For the last week, candidates have scurried about in blue blazers and ties, promising the world to anyone they happen across. Longer hours for Cambridge eateries, free coursepacks, bike lanes in the Yard and much more—offered up, with little chance that any of it will be accomplished.The reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been...
...Regattabar jazz club. The shows were part of a 17-date tour in support of Scofield’s latest album, entitled “That’s What I Say—JS Plays The Music of Ray Charles.” That studio effort features a nigh-unbeatable cast, but Scofield’s road ensemble proved itself a more-than-worthy replacement, combining unfailingly tight rhythms with inventive leads.In addition to their remarkable musicianship, all the performers exhibited wide smiles throughout the gig, which contributed to the happiness of the atmosphere. Benitez and Scofield in particular...
...journalists can’t keep their sources’ names confidential, then informants won’t talk. Reporting on governmental and corporate scandals—in which sources are likely to be fired if their names are revealed—will become well nigh impossible. Newspapers will be relegated to reeling off human interest stories and boilerplate press releases. It will be like turning the New York Times into the Harvard Gazette...
...provoking is self-amplifying, like an atomic chain reaction. If we fail to take drastic action by the time our children graduate from college, the United Nations Environmental Program has predicted that the melting of the glaciers and ice sheets, the stabilizers of our current climate, will be nigh unstoppable. The resulting rise in sea level could directly threaten over 100 million people by the end of the century, and the disruption to current weather and flooding patterns all over the world will potentially endanger billions more...
...hour of Robbins’ arrival at the Pudding drew nigh, four spotlight beams swung across the industrial walls of neighboring Holyoke Center. Inside, the 117-year-old theater filled with tuxedoed men and women in chic eveningwear. An air of decidedly old-Harvard mirth descended as attendees hobnobbed and perused the program for HPT’s 157th annual musical, Terms of Frontierment. The show, which opened following the Man of the Year ceremony, adhered to the Pudding’s tradition of casting exclusively male actors in all parts...