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...game will closely resemble the Harvard “Risk?? game sponsored by the College Events Board (CEB) last spring. And Harvard students are likely to be active participants this time around too, according to Benjamin S. Decker ’08, the president of the Harvard Interactive Media Group, an umbrella organization that oversees the group responsible for managing the Harvard side of the tournament...
...Angeles, the festival runs for nine days has surprised even its organizers with its popularity. According to Nitin Sawhney, a member of the festival’s organizing committee, one of the greatest difficulties faced was convincing the MFA to “take this risk?? and co-present the films. But the risk seemed to have been worthwhile for all parties involved, as viewers filled the theater on Saturday. “People are craving for a wider exposure to Palestinian art and these [films] are easy to watch,” says Sawhney.The festival is geared...
Though federal funding has proven tight for researchers around the country, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded nine Harvard scientists special funding to pursue innovative, “high-risk?? research...
...coalition of Leverett, Pforzheimer, and Quincy Houses declared a joint “unconditional allied victory” yesterday in the campus-wide Internet “Risk?? game, signaling the end of two weeks of intense online battles. The victory came after Lowell—the last remaining House outside the winning alliance—was defeated in the sudden-death round initiated yesterday. Leverett, Pforzheimer, and Quincy’s war councils had signed a pact to form the alliance Wednesday night. The official treaty, which was presented to the game’s organizers, Campus...
...light of all this, I suggest an alternative. Next year, the College Events Board should cease its coy posturing and change the name of the game to “CEB Self-Promotion.” The format would be very similar to Risk??s, except that the battles would be rhetorical, the rules prescribed by Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the communistic House element eroded to shameless personal image management. And, of course, MorganStanley will be watching...