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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...perhaps the most interesting thing about the environmental resolution that the Mass. General Court passed last week is that it was the brainchild of a student organization—Massachusetts Power Shift (MAPS). To see students participating in legislation and enacting real change—particularly for the environment—is impressive given the dauntingly bureaucratic process it requires. And, even better, Harvard students played an important role in these proceedings. The Harvard College Environmental Action Committee was actively involved in the MAPS group that worked with legislative officials to make the April 7 resolution a reality...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: An Electrifying Development | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...said that he thinks that Partners has created a policy that is in line with many other research institutions. Campbell said that this policy change sets a tone and a culture for what kinds of relationships will be accepted. He said that he does not expect to see a shift overnight, however. “These are very resilient cultures,” he said. Campbell said that the influx of students in medical school who are willing to embrace these policy changes has helped lead to the cultural shift. Campbell said that doctors can still meet with pharmaceutical representatives?...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hospitals Adopt Stricter Policies | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...idea is to serve stuff that groups of amped-up rabble rousers can share. Denny's wants to give the late-night crowd a social experience they can't get at fast-food drive-throughs, which are now staying open later and eating away at the chain's graveyard-shift revenues. "The party is not going to stop once you get through those doors," says Michael Polydoroff, director of sales, promotions and licensing at Denny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denny's: Where the Food Is Free and Drunks Can Pee | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...brinksmanship, each work one-upping the last: Titian’s consummate composition and beauty, Veronese’s ebullient gatherings of pastel-clad figures, or Tintoretto’s brilliant challenges to the status quo.The exhibition begins at a turning point in the history of painting, with the shift from wood panels to stretched canvases as the substrate for the painted work. The contrasting pair that opens the exhibition juxtaposes a Titian canvas with an earlier Bellini panel of a similar scene, a virgin surrounded by saints. The smooth surface of the polished wood panel and the carefully hidden...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Titian Tintoretto, Vernonese Awe at MFA | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...case, the official shift in the treatment of Posada will most likely enhance the hemisphere's early optimistic mood about President Obama when he lands in Trinidad next week. "This will certainly be construed by Latin America as a positive step," says Daniel Erikson, a senior analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, in Washington, and the author of The Cuba Wars. "The region sees the Posada case as one of the worst examples of a U.S. double standard regarding the rule of law, a subject we often lecture Latin America about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Militant's Indictment Could Boost U.S.-Latin Ties | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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