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...editors: As a former proctor and director of the prefect program, I support the creation of an academic peer advising system for Harvard College but fear the best elements of the prefect program will be lost with its demise (“College Pulls Plug On Prefects,” news, Mar. 7). Good prefects forged relationships among freshmen in their entryway, facilitated the connection between older proctors and young freshmen, and provided an invaluable link between the Yard and the Houses. In addition, the program managed a series of Yard-wide, late-night, alcohol-free activities designed to give...
...confusion, unlike the Bose and the Klipsch, the Hi-Fi can run on six D-cell batteries. In what locations without a power plug would a 14.5-lb. sound system come in handy? Up in a tree fort, perhaps? Surely even Bart Simpson would rig up an extension cord...
Associating a recognizable face with a product has been a winning formula for the beauty industry since Pond's signed society queens to plug Vanishing Cream in 1924, but finding the right girl is harder than one might think. "We are looking for women who communicate sincerity and true beauty, an interior beauty," says Odile Roujol, deputy general manager of Lancme International. Last year, as the launch of the brand's fragrance Hypnse approached, the company shopped around for a new face, but none of the candidates seemed right. Then, Lancme's Paris ad agency organized...
...Mazur, who co-teaches the Physics Department’s introductory-level year-long sequence, said.Mazur said that AP exams “do a disservice to higher education.”“They are geared as a model that rewards ‘plug and chuck’ and memorization,” Mazur said. “You look at a problem and say what equation should be used without understanding.”And Higgins Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl, who co-teaches the spring semester course in the year-long introductory Life Sciences...
...mouse. But here's the coolest feature: the gadget's receiver holds 1 GB of internal flash memory, plenty of space to store PowerPoint presentations and other multimedia files. It can also be paired with any PC in seconds, no software installation required. All you have to do is plug it into a USB port on the conference-room PC, and you're ready to go--whether or not you're tight with the guy in IT. TIME BUSINESS PODCASTS Subscribe directly using these popular podcasting tools: iTunes | MyYahoo Or copy and paste this URL into your favorite podcasting tool...