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Ravi prasad studies the small machine in his hands. Friends peer over his shoulder, while several young children scramble for a good view. The 16-year-old has been told that he is holding a computer. He looks skeptical. His school in Madavara, a dusty farming village outside Bangalore, has a computer: a big one, with a keyboard, a wide screen and all kinds of wires. This has none of that. Instead, it's the size of a datebook and has earphones and some kind of blunt writing utensil. "Why is it so small?" he asks. "This is a computer...
Performers at the cavernous Metreon complex, who can wait up to half an hour to pay $2.50 for a turn at the machine, can't help but add a little personal oomph - a shoulder jiggle here or a hip swing there. Maybe that's because the DDR is strategically placed next to the space-age bar, so a little beer can help wannabe dancers loosen inhibitions. "You want to make the moves all your own," says Aldea, who also deejays hip-hop gigs. "That's what makes the routine last in people's minds for more than a few minutes...
Although Japanese designers like Miyake and Hanae Mori appeared on the international fashion scene in the 1970s, it was a decade later when Paris really took notice. The era was one of excess: Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler were focused on enhancing shoulders with exaggerated padding; Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent were creating rococo fantasies of beading, silk and ruffles. Amid the froufrous and frills, Kawakubo and Yamamoto rolled out their collections and set Paris on its ear. The clothes were revolutionary, shocking - stark, unstructured and overwhelmingly black. Bewildered critics dubbed Kawakubo's first Paris collection in 1981 - with...
Students elected to the Undergraduate Council often expect to endure their classmates’ ridicule and the administration’s cold shoulder. What they don’t expect to endure is several thousand dollars in personal credit card debt. Personal debt, however, is exactly the predicament that council members Trisha S. Dasgupta ’03 and Robert M. Gee ’02 currently face. In February, Dasgupta and Gee doled out $600 and $1300, respectively, in order to cover over-budget costs of a Harvard-sponsored summit of the Ivy Council—an umbrella organization...
...shoulder the increasing workload, the Let's Go home office on Mt. Auburn street is also expanding this year, Douglas says, with more managing editors and associate editors to churn out the more than 50 titles to be released for the 2002 series...