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...faith seems to genuinely lift the spirit, though it's tough to tell whether it's the God part or the community aspect that does the heavy lifting. Friends? A giant yes. A 2002 study conducted at the University of Illinois by Diener and Seligman found that the most salient characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment to spending time with them. "Word needs to be spread," concludes Diener. "It is important to work on social skills, close...
...office. The worldwide gross of ?Fahrenheit? was more than 36 million times its $6 million budget (yikes! someone?s getting rich off this movie!), whereas ?The Passion? took in some 20 million times its $30 million budget (Mel was already rich). But for our purposes, the salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real...
Indeed, the interesting thing about the past month of post-election soul-searching is that the most salient cleavage is proving to be less left v. right than reform v. status quo. This fissure was of course prefigured by the Dean campaign, which was always less about pushing an ideological critique than about pressing its outsider reformist sensibility. So if you’re looking for a bellwether for the Democrats’ post-election direction, keep your eye on Dean’s bid to be the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair. Not to say that Dean...
Kate A. Tiskus ’06, a Crimson editor and history concentrator in Mather House, is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Salient...
...special effects, no flip-books, no PowerPoint presentations. What you had was a rather shy man talking about his philosophy of architecture. It was probably one of the worst presentations I've seen in my life." But once Taniguchi focused on his design and began pointing out the salient features of his model, says Riley, "there came this whole level of revelation and excitement." The committee, made up of heavy-hitting art collectors like cosmetics mogul Ronald Lauder and billionaire financier Sid Bass, unanimously approved Taniguchi's plan...