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...Severson, director for excursions for HLCentral. An email advertising the shuttle promised “the closest you’ll get to the college football experience while you’re at HLS.” For those who still haven’t found transportation, options include renting a car or taking the train or a Greyhound bus to New Haven. As of yesterday, a two-day rental of an SUV from Enterprise Rent-a-Car for a round trip to New Haven cost approximately $285, including gas. On Amtrak’s website yesterday, prices...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Many Roads To New Haven | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...acting and singing is uniformly strong, possibly because most of the original Broadway cast reprises their roles: The exceptions are Tracie Thoms as straitlaced lesbian lawyer Joanne and Rosario Dawson as the HIV-positive Latina heroine. Thoms proves herself a true triple threat in “Rent.” Her singing voice is far and away the strongest of the cast, her dancing is expert, and her acting is measured and effective—all of these talents are on display in her showcase number, “The Tango Maureen.”Dawson also acquits herself...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rent | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

Harvard students may be forced into cramped rooms in awful-smelling dorms, but they can hang artwork by Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns on their walls. The Student Rental Program at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum allows students to rent highly valued artwork each fall for only $25, $45, or—at the very most?...

Author: By Emily J. Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 10: The Fogg’s Student Rental Program: $25 Puts Warhol On Your Wall | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

...enough. For example, I have two jobs. I see my daughter just three or four hours in the day. I don’t sleep enough. So that’s the reason the wage needs to be increased. $330 a week is not enough. We have to pay rent, we have to pay for winter [expenses]...we have to spend money on electricity and heat.” Harvard further contributes to a grim situation for employees and their families by outsourcing. Harvard’s outsourced janitors are employed through cleaning companies that manage their workers?...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine, Jeff D. Rakover, and Amanda L. Shapiro, S | Title: Caring About Harvard’s Workers | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...woefully poor understanding of France's urban morass. The decrepit housing projects now hosting pitched battles are case studies in progressive French good intentions gone awry. Initially constructed in the 1960s to replace the squalid Hoovervilles once populated by imported laborers from African nations, the clusters of high-rise, rent-subsidized housing projects lost their early allure as once-abundant jobs vanished, unemployment rose, and incomes plummeted. As France's economy slowed, conditions in the banlieue began to erode, public services were scaled back, and the geographic segregation from the affluent cities such projects surround eventually produced enclave cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Muslim Youth Want In, Not Out | 11/8/2005 | See Source »

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