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...shakes us.” “Snow Angels” clearly communicates the emotional intensity that Green seeks to explore. Green knows that a lack of special effects in his film may hinder its performance at the box office, but he is satisfied with his final product. “It is rewarding to see people talking about the movie,” he said...
...final part of the conference explores women and Islam, and will touch upon whether women’s rights are natural rights or a product of Western civilization, Mansfield said...
...measure has its roots in the Great Depression and World War II. First the priority was tracking the ups and downs (mostly downs) of the business cycle in the 1930s. Then military planners needed a better way to assess production capacity. The result was gross national product (GNP), which after the war soon became the standard means of keeping economic score. It was replaced in 1991 by GDP, which measures production in the U.S. as opposed to production by Americans, but the basic idea is the same. The concept conquered the world--with Germany deserving special mention as surely...
...health and education data with per capita GDP to give a more complete view of the wealth of nations (the U.S. currently comes in 12th, while on per capita GDP alone, it ranks second). Stiglitz, a Columbia professor and former World Bank chief economist, advocates a "green net national product" that takes into account the depletion of natural resources. Also sure to come up in the French discussion is the currently fashionable idea of trying to include happiness in the equation...
Theses are labors of love. Students spend up to a year researching and writing them, countless sleepless nights working on them, and hopefully are proud of the product that they hand in. They are supposed to be the capstone to students’ four years of education—the first “real” contribution that students make to the scholarly community. The creation of a website to save all senior theses—created by Harvard College Free Culture, a student group—should be welcomed as a great addition to the campus and Harvard?...