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...decides to not seek reelection as a city councillor, it will mark the first time since 1936 that no one from the Sullivan clan serves on the council. That year, Michael A. “Mickey the Dude” Sullivan, the grandfather of the current councillor, won a seat. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
Hunt is frank about the role wealth played in her career. “To be indelicate, money bought a seat at the table,” she writes. While it is hard not to sympathize with the career diplomats who resent her appointment, I admire Hunt’s candor...
...other IHOP stores through Mr. Stax Inc. “It’s going to be the new look for the IHOP,” he said. Mr. Stax Inc. changed the lighting, switched the colors of the coffee pots to copper and black, and also upgraded the seating to gray benches that will seat up to 96 customers in total, according to the store’s general manager, Hugo Buenavenura. The Square location will also be the first IHOP in the country to offer a low-carb menu, called “IHOP...
...also need to be aware of cheating on exams. Believe it or not, the Harvard exam protocols are not as airtight as we think. The policy of leaving a seat between you and the next person would be an effective strategy for preventing wandering eyes, but unfortunately, the human eye has finally evolved to the point where we can actually read off someone else’s test a whole three feet away from us (Science B-29 final exam; 2005). No doubt cheating would be rampant were it not for the fact that the TF moderating the exam vigilantly...
...science? This debate long predates Darwin, but the antireligion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience. Brain imaging illustrates--in color!--the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or, some suggest, of Jesus. Like Freudianism before it, the field of evolutionary psychology generates theories of altruism...