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Instead of bouncing to the rhymes of Wyclef Jean this fall, the first Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)-sponsored show of the year will feature seven comedians in front of a microphone, cracking the audience up for charity.The HCC will combine with the Earthquake Relief Coalition, which is comprised of 34 student cultural and public service groups, to host “Comedy for a Cause” on December 10 in Sanders Theatre. The show, which will feature seven 15-to-20 minute comedy acts, will mark a lot of firsts—the first HCC event of the school...
...allowing a hardened building from Day One of a crisis," says Brewin. "From field research in Uganda, we observed that a usable building always has value in the reconstruction phase after a disaster." The pair are developing plans to market their product. Demand shouldn't be an issue. Relief agencies in Africa have already expressed a need for such shelters. Disaster, both human and natural, is unceasing...
Louisiana's recent request for $250 billion, perilously short on details, got a contemptuous reception from Republicans ("Nonstarter," said a Senate aide), editorial writers (who dubbed it the "Louisiana looters' bill") and even a few Democrats ("They're thieves," said a House aide involved with budgeting for Louisiana relief). Michael Olivier, Louisiana's secretary of economic development, points out that Katrina devastated a far larger area--23,000 acres--than 9/11 did and destroyed nearly 284,000 homes. With 71,000 businesses shut down by Katrina and a further 10,000 by Rita, and with local governments short...
...there is also a sense of relief in those words. Sullivan finally has his prized freshmen on campus—a rare occurrence for a representative of a league that plays by different rules than the rest of the Division I conferences...
...slow-paced sound because he couldn’t sing any faster, who got his style because he didn’t have any other shirts. Initially, Phoenix’s low-emotion performance seems stilted, but from the first moment he sings a note, everything springs into relief. Glimmers of Cash’s shy, awkward inner self shine through the blustery tough-guy front he puts up for the public. This is a man who famously sang, “I shot a man in Reno/just to watch him die,” but, faced with June Carter?...