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...more stupid?” A poster called “Madcat” asks on the recently controversial admissions blog xoxohth.com. The bloggers certainly seem to be trying. This burn-book-style blog has received plenty of attention, with articles in The Washington Post and a segment on NPR. With all the hype, you’d think the blog was a cornucopia of juicy gossip about the future Sam McSenators who populate Harvard Law School. Reality disappoints. Scrolling through posts, the most viewed posts includes a YouTube video of an unidentified Harvard Law student with...
...next segment of the concert, “Anniversary Dances,” was prefaced by the appearance of an unexpected guest: the composer himself. In an introduction to his piece, Moravec stated that one of his closest friends, a fellow composer, once said that the meaning of music was love. In this theme, the suite was commissioned in part by Astrid and John Baumgardner for their 30th wedding anniversary. It was against this more personalized atmosphere that the quartet launched into a piece that differed greatly from the first, more formal piece...
...instruments that give them partial claims to ownership of yet other firms. Add to this the dynamic and quickly-changing nature of today’s business environment, and it becomes almost impossible for an institutional investor of Harvard’s size to completely separate itself from any segment of the global market. “Total divestment” is little more than a pipedream because there will always be some link to a questionable company, no matter how tenuous.Given this reality, the best the University can do is to be as vigilant as possible in trying...
...administration also lobbied hard to introduce a tax on goods and services, arguing that it needed to diversify its revenue base in case a major source of income, like government land sales, took a hit. But the proposal was roundly opposed by almost every segment of society. Retailers reckoned it would hurt their businesses. Economists believed it would unnecessarily complicate a straightforward tax regimen and deter foreign investors. And ordinary folk felt it would unduly burden low- and middle-income consumers. The government's gambit turned into an embarrassment when Financial Secretary Henry Tang, the moving force behind...
...fitting that each segment of Comedy Central's The Axis of Evil Comedy Special (March 10), the first TV stand-up show with all Middle Eastern--American comics, begins with each comedian walking onstage through a metal detector. The 9/11 attacks changed the airport from a place of comical annoyance to a place of suspicion and dread. "Whenever I get on a plane, I always know who the air marshal is," says Axis' Ahmed Ahmed. "He's the guy holding the PEOPLE magazine upside down, staring right...