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...these days. Musicals like Wicked can cost as much as $15 million, but they tend to draw bigger audiences than dramatic plays. The higher production costs are driving up ticket prices on Broadway and pushing out the time it takes productions to be profitable. Many plays can run for six months without turning a profit. Musicals take twice as long to get to the black. (See the best business deals...
Economics concentrators have some reason to celebrate now that Harvard has reinstated the department’s junior seminars. After cutting the program from this year’s curriculum due to financial circumstances, the College is adding six seminars over the next academic year, each with a maximum of 18 students. While this is a positive move overall, economics concentrators would benefit from additional changes to the program...
...Since six seminars will be offered next year, participation is clearly limited to only a fraction of each class of students. Economics—the largest department at Harvard, with over 700 concentrators—is already understaffed, with large student-to-faculty ratios and unwelcomingly massive lecture courses. More seminars, with as small or smaller enrollment, should be added to supplement the curriculum of students who often do not receive the personal attention present in other departments. Indeed, the academic development of economics concentrators is especially important given the barrage of economic issues prevalent today, and students should have...
...admirable that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences reinstated the seminar program for economics concentrators. However, providing these six classes cannot alone ensure that students reach their full academic potential. Economics seminars must be replicated and restructured to be more sustainable, worthwhile, and inclusive for Harvard’s largest group of undergraduates...
...Iranians are determined to have a nuclear program," Powell told interviewer Judy Woodruff. "Notice I did not say a nuclear weapon. But they are determined to have a nuclear program, notwithstanding the last six or seven years of efforts on our part to keep them from having a nuclear program...