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...course, the cost of maintaining the Houses and freshman dormitories during the entire month of January is high, and limiting available housing could save the College costs through heating, dining, electricity, and water bills. The College has not yet specified whether entire Houses will be closed, forcing students to move into “open” houses, or whether all students allowed to stay on campus would be permitted to live in their own rooms. The administration has stated that Annenberg would be the only dining hall to be open during the month. Making sacrifices to cut costs...
...prison work has also been a serious drain on CIA resources. In Thursday's announcement, CIA Director Leon Panetta said that in closing the prisons, the agency would save $4 million per year on contractors. What he didn't mention was that hundreds of CIA staffers were involved in overseeing the prisons. The tail to tooth ratio in the CIA is no different from any other government agency. (Read Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers...
...most famous fairy tales, a young woman discovers a secret room full of the corpses of her husband’s former wives. The original “Little Mermaid,” by Hans Christian Andersen, finds Ariel’s less-lucky predecessor forfeiting her life to save her prince. In the Grimms’ fairy tale, Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilate themselves in order to squeeze their feet into the glass slipper. The grim plots and endings don’t negate the fact that they’re all magnificent stories. The problem with Kurt...
...absurd, too absurd to be edifying. Unwilling to fully embrace fiction or reality, “The Posthuman Dada Guide” chooses to undermine both. Maybe this is the most Dadaist way to deal with the future—to propose that neither knowledge nor art can save us from our own mistakes.—Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
...that it might not go far enough in generating domestic demand. Shinichi Ichikawa, chief strategist at Credit Suisse Tokyo, says that the government has failed to articulate "a philosophy to change the Japanese economic structure." The program doesn't do enough to reform the economy so that consumers will save less and spend more on a permanent basis, he says, which means growth will remain overly reliant on the performance of a handful of top companies such as Toyota Motor, the world's largest automaker. "I think it's only big spending by the Japanese government to boost the Japanese...