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...vendors and “Takeover” party promoters outside the Science Center last week, fraternity brothers from Sigma Chi were hawking for a needier cause. They raised $1,266 for the United Way’s Thanksgiving Project, enough to provide holiday feasts of turkey, stuffing, and pie for 21 families in the Boston area. Anthony J. Valente ’07, who organized the efforts for the fraternity, said he was shocked by the large response from Harvard students, having expected to raise just a few hundred dollars. “I can’t tell...
With all of the excitement surrounding Apple's video-capable iPod, and the iTunes Music Store's $2 TV-show downloads, it was easy to miss the third, albeit smaller, piece of the pie: the iMac G5 with remote control...
...already provided a library and estate that spawned the most prestigious university in the world. Now, his eponymous restaurant gives Harvard students a dessert on the house after a birthday hullabaloo. The celebrant can pick from a menu that includes the classic butterscotch bread pudding and the stout mudslide pie...
...impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition--that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it--ought to be one of the most democratically distributed. Nature is a zero-sum game, after all. Every buffalo you kill for your family is one less for somebody else's; every acre of land you occupy elbows out somebody else. Given that, the need to get ahead ought to be hard-wired into all of us equally...
...where the great goal is to be seen on TV, regardless of talent. In Gore Verbinski’s new film, “The Weather Man,” the titular character is actually the target of such attacks, and the film itself might be read as a pie-in-the-face of our culture of celebrity and consumption. But what kind of pie? “The Weather Man” strives to be a pie of substance and succeeds to a certain degree; with its sense of humor and light social commentary, it certainly avoids the vapidity...