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TIME: There's a popular image of husbands who can't get enough sex. Is that a myth...
...intended to appeal to students who may not regularly celebrate Shabbat. “We were trying to engage Jewish students in an aspect of Jewish life that they might not otherwise be involved in,” Joselow said. Professor Tal D. Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular class Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” gave the evening’s opening remarks. “A lot of what he talks about in Positive Psych and the spirit of Shabbat are similar,” Rohr said. “Taking time...
Facebook, the Harvard-born online networking giant, unveiled a new chat feature Sunday that rivals Google’s popular Gmail chat program. Harvard students said they were ambivalent about the launch, which Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman called on the official Facebook blog “a new way to communicate with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user’s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green...
...raucous London and Paris legs appear to have surprised Chinese officials. French popular concern over human rights conditions in China took root only following the brutal suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott...
...inundated with announcements and e-mail reminders to bring out their constituents in droves. Just as important as the event’s content and pub has been the timing: Instead of being held on a weekend afternoon, Yardfest 2008 will happen on a Friday night. A far more popular time slot for a concert event, it offers a chance to usher in the weekend on a notable high. Simply put, Yardfest will be hard to miss. The CEB’s endeavours to revive the annual Yardfest and by proxy, the social scene at Harvard, are both quite commendable...