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...making the change, Harvard is hoping that its reputation will prevent the College from losing top students to other institutions that still allow early applications...
...keep the “drama renaissance more a flowering and less a mushrooming” in a 1957 editorial. The HDC was solicited to set up a master calendar of dramatic productions—much like the one in place today—in order to prevent competition for ticket sales and end the “glut and fast” of theater goers who were forced to choose between five productions in one weekend, and zero the next...
...spaces, with their diagonal walls - spaces not so different from his new ones at the ROM - were inhospitable to the art or even the public. To meet U.S. safety codes, the museum had to apply 7.5-cm-tall wooden markers ("courtesy curbs") on the floor in some galleries to prevent visitors from advancing into inward-sloping walls and bumping their heads. Christoph Heinrich, who will become the Denver museum's new curator of modern art in September, has already announced that for one of his first shows he plans to ask artists to offer work that responds to the language...
...word quarantine comes from Latin for 40, the number of days Venice required ships to stay anchored before landing to prevent the spread of the Black Death in the 14th century. Since 2002 the government has claimed broad powers to isolate anyone who poses a public-health threat--including those who may have been exposed but aren't yet sick--to contain a flu pandemic or a bioterrorist attack. Various states are flexing their muscles; authorities in Arizona have locked up a TB patient because he refused to wear a mask when he went outside. In New York, patients...
...pages of all 18 candidates from the two major parties and asked them to be my friend. All accepted my friendship within hours (Republicans Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilmore even left comments on my site: "Thanks for the add!"). All, that is, except Rudy Giuliani. Not only did Giuliani prevent me from seeing his site by setting his profile to private, as if he were a hot 16-year-old girl with strict parents, but--unlike the other candidates, who accepted my invitation almost immediately--Rudy has still not made me his friend after 25 days. I'm starting...