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...movie sketches the four decades of this vigilante group in a brilliant opening-credits sequence, set to Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin'. 1945: In the Times Square revelry on V.J. Day, a nurse is kissed by the slinky superheroine Silhouette in the style of Alfred Eisenstadt's famous photo. 1961: President Kennedy greets Dr. Manhattan at the White House. 1963: JFK is gunned down by the splenetic, cigar-chomping Comedian. 1969: A U.S. astronaut walks on the moon, and finds Dr. Manhattan waiting for him. 1971: President Nixon sends Manhattan and The Comedian to Vietnam...
Brooks has spent a couple of decades showing panicky seniors that there is in fact life after school, and she's a big believer in staying open to the possibility that one's work may have nothing to do with one's college major. "Only about 30% of the alumni who get back in touch with me end up in careers directly related to their college studies," she says. "Most discover they're actually more interested in other things." Is that 70% majority happy? "Yes, because they're following their passion," Brooks says. "The saddest thing to me is seeing...
...terms of paleoanthropology, in the sense that we had very few fossils beyond three million years old at that point. Most of the evidence for human evolution older than three million years, you could fit in the palm of your hand. One of the major things she did was open wide that window. She showed us conclusively that upright walking and bipedalism preceded all of the other changes we'd normally consider being human, such as tool-making. She gave us a glimpse of what older ancestors would look like. Lucy is really at a nice point on the family...
...percent of MBA students enter the financial services industry upon graduation. University Provost Steven E. Hyman recently voiced opposition to the restrictions in a letter to Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who represents Cambridge in the U.S. House. Hyman wrote last month that it was important to keep jobs open to all recent graduates, regardless of their country of origin. “Now more than ever, our country needs to capture the talents of our brightest graduates to work to turn around these troubled industries,” he wrote. Casey said the impact of the amendment on Harvard?...
...structure.Officially titled the “Report of the Committee to Review the Undergraduate Council,” the document prescribes relatively few recommendations that had been reached unanimously by the committee. Instead, the bulk of the 40-page report consists of an “open issues” section which describes the discussion points upon which the committee had not yet reached a consensus, in addition to an internal review produced by three UC members.Though the report did not bring closure to many long-standing debates about the UC’s structure, some conclusions were reached...