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...extent they talk about it at all, the two parties take different approaches to closing the income gap. Obama in particular has been explicit about wanting to shift more of the income-tax burden away from the middle class and onto those making more than $200,000 a year, while McCain has spoken mainly about creating better job-retraining programs for those displaced by globalization. Another potential path, although it hasn't been a theme in the campaign so far, would be a big effort to repair the country's crumbling infrastructure - which would create lots of jobs that couldn...
...It’s more of a process of discovery, and I would say that the latter is what I do. When I hear the words ‘activist filmmaking,’ I think of somebody who’s an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.7.FM: Has your activism ever gotten you into any serious trouble? JN: So far, no. But this is going to be an interesting experiment because we’re showing these films all over the world, including my hometown in Cairo, Egypt, and there are some controversial parts...
...tiny newborn leaf, then at the end of the summer they fall off and decay into the soil.” The Cornell-educated photographer said her work was influenced by artists like Jackson Pollack, and in the case of this exhibition, by one quotation from Pollack in particular: “My concern is with the rhythms of nature...I work inside out, like nature.” The exhibition will run at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through Feb. 8, 2009. —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...making politicians look like losers, and the next primary in Kentucky looks like more of the same terrain that's been tough for Obama, heavy in older, working-class whites without college degrees. So the question of the moment has become: Do Obama's continuing struggles with those particular voters suggest potential problems for him in November...
...Sciences (FAS) e-mail client, Webmail. In a recent survey, only two percent of undergraduates stated that they were very satisfied with Webmail, compared with 23 percent who reported being very dissatisfied. This widespread discontent has triggered a mass exodus from the Webmail interface to other clients, in particular Google’s free and convenient service, Gmail. In 2008, 58 percent of Harvard undergraduates used Gmail as their primary email client, up from 38 percent the year before. It’s no surprise that so many students are jumping ship to get on board the Google bandwagon. Webmail...