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...construction of new science facilities across the river as one of its priorities. Harvard’s development of its property in Cambridge has typically generated considerable town-gown tension, But the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s project manager Gerald Autler said he did not anticipate a similar phenomenon in Boston. “The work to date has established a precedent for a high degree of community involvement,” Autler said. Harvard’s Director of Community Relations for Boston, Kevin McCluskey ’76, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...vastness of cyberspace. “In general, students forget that information is largely visible depending on how you protect it,” says Erin Nettifee, Harvard’s supervisor of residential computing.Why should we care?“I think that the whole growing phenomenon of people being stalkers on the internet is a little scary and worrisome but I don’t think it’s a really pressing issue,” says Jessica E. Becker ’09.But is Becker correct? In a study conducted by the National Center for Missing...
...says actor Gérard Jugnot, who plays Bernard Morin, a small-time businessman with upper-class aspirations. "In 1978, we were just trying to create these amusing, farcical situations and characters. Little did we know that with time and spreading popularity it would become a social phenomenon." Like its predecessors, Bronzés 3dispatches its callous characters on vacation where a minimalist plot is driven by their pettiness, scheming and serial infidelities. But in contrast to the early works, which parodied the unabashed boorishness of young French tourists in the sex-addled 1970s at an Ivory Coast Club...
...character that you need but you just cannot find the right person to pull him off--if there is a dichotomy about him, some strange anomaly--that's when I want you to call me." I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold...
...early October with the media blitz that will accompany Peter Pan in Scarlet when it's published in English in the U.K. and the U.S., and in translation in markets across Europe and Asia. Low profile or not, the fact is McCaughrean, 54, is already a bona fide publishing phenomenon with more than 130 titles and a roster of literary awards to her long, unwieldy name. Born in suburban north London, McCaughrean has written for as long as she can remember. But it took a couple of false starts as a secretary and, disastrously, a schoolteacher before she settled into...