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...with any Yardfest artist, the choice is bound to be contested. This comes down to the fact that there are two particularly vocal schools of thought when it comes to preferred musical taste on campus—and they don’t overlap...
...Committee, or FiCom. Tamar Holoshitz ’10, SAC chair, said she thought that the Council’s advocacy goals would be better served if there were two advocacy committees. “One thing to consider is the three committees inevitably have a huge amount of overlap,” she said. The UC discussed the merits of increasing its membership to three people per district during the meeting. The discussion was only the beginning of the UC’s effort to reevaluate it’s structure in light of the Dowling Report. Discussions will...
...person task force comprised of university faculty and library staff from diverse academic backgrounds will prepare a set of recommendations to the President and the Council of Deans. Their recommendations will address the overall structure of the library system, possible technological changes, and ways to address the overlap of library services. “This is an opportunity to craft a different approach to the management of our libraries, one that takes into account the increasing interest in interdisciplinary research,” said Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline. “We need to better understand...
Faith and health overlap in other ways too. Take fasting. One of the staples of both traditional wellness protocols and traditional religious rituals is the cleansing fast, which is said to purge toxins in the first case and purge sins or serve other pious ends in the second. There are secular water fasts, tea fasts and grapefruit fasts, to say nothing of the lemon, maple-syrup and cayenne-pepper fast. Jews fast on Yom Kippur; Muslims observe Ramadan; Catholics have Lent; Hindus give up food on 18 major holidays. Done right, these fasts may lead to a state of clarity...
...says Dr. C. Arden Pope III, the study's lead author and an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University, "if you consider every factor that extends life expectancy and add them up, you almost always end up with more than a 100% improvement." This is because many of the factors overlap, so scientists must take care not to count an extra week, say, as an extra two or three weeks...