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...snuck in references to people we know. There are traces of people that I knew from Harvard,” she said. One such example is the last name of her freshman year roommate, which now serves as one of the names of a law firm in the show.Another nod to the real Harvard are the names of the three admissions officers who accept Elle into Harvard Law—Pforzheimer, Lowell, and Winthrop.The event also took on a lighter tone. Members of The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, dressed in drag as sorority sisters and Elle Woods, tested their Elle (David...
...have had solid records of improving test scores over the past six years have been put on probation and are threatened with losing funding if they continue to fall short of these unreasonable standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous exams. In a nod to states’ rights, the law was written to allow each state to set its own testing standards. As a result, states with relatively easy proficiency tests, such as Wisconsin or Mississippi, had few schools that failed to meet testing standards. States that were hardest hit were those with...
...Sleep The Glo to Sleep mask is supposed to calm the storm in your head so you can reach the Land of Nod. You activate the mask's glow-in-the-dark pellets by holding it near a light for 30 seconds, and then kick back and "look up" at the floating, glowing disc shapes (you decide, cosmic snowmen or early Atari video game?). The design is based on meditation practices and scientific research that suggests that looking up and focusing on an object lowers brain-wave frequencies. It did work, as long as I kept looking at the glowing...
...around, enjoying themselves, caring about what they care about—whether it’s protecting the environment, picking apples, or helping alleviate homelessness.”But while Cambridge’s Oktoberfest had its differences from Bavaria’s, the organizers gave at least a nod to the event’s German origin. Two sections were cordoned off as “Beer Gardens”—each occupied by employees from Charlie’s Beer Garden and Grafton Street—where people could enjoy two staples of the archetypal Oktoberfest...
...carry average, was pretty good at what he did before he got wiped off the depth chart. In danger of becoming known solely as that guy on the team with the same name as the 15th Century Chinese explorer from your AP World History class, Ho got the nod last Saturday against Lafayette...