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...coach Fitz remains terrifying as ever, with all of his focus formerly devoted to 41 Harvard teams now channeled solely towards Gamecocks football. The title of the post ("Craig Fitzgerald Scares Me") says it all. Can we get a "Why am I not surprised?" from an athlete in the room...
...environmental conscience. The Seaport Hotel near Logan International Airport is offering complimentary parking for hybrid cars during the entire month of April. “We’re strongly motivated by environmental concerns,” said Matthew V. Moore, the hotel’s director of rooms and environmental programs. “The complimentary parking is our way of giving back to those guests who share a similar environmental philosophy.” Across the river, The Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel has implemented numerous energy conservation measures in place, such as room occupancy sensors that automatically...
...traditions and thought within the modern world was the topic of discussion during a well-attended open forum and question and answer session with noted professors Charles Taylor, Michael J. Sandel, and Homi Bhabha last night. More than 120 people crowded into the Barker Center’s Thompson room to attend the event organized by the Harvard University Press’ Executive Editor for the Humanities Lindsay E. Waters and professors Bhabha and Steven Biel, who are also the directors of the Humanities center at Harvard. An Emeritus professor of political philosophy at McGill University in Canada...
...even as Obama spoke in the Locarno Room, a grand, gilded space in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that was designed at the height of Britain's colonial powers, plans were afoot to challenge a stage-managed G-20 consensus. Demonstrators took to the streets, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent out invitations to their own joint London press conference, to signal their determination to resist any Anglo-American pressure for additional fiscal stimulus and to highlight their demands for stricter financial regulation. They are not the only G-20 leaders to arrive in London...
Though frat boys and sorority girls are already a clannish lot, the investigators tried to magnify any team rivalry that might exist by hanging their house banners on opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin...