Word: slates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blogs won’t sound the death knell for mainstream media, leaders of today’s news industry said Friday at a Kennedy School of Government panel that included blogger Arianna Huffington and Slate Magazine founder Michael Kinsley ’72. Around 200 spectators flocked to the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy last week in celebration of the Harvard research center’s 20th anniversary. There, six panelists agreed that traditional forms of news can co-exist with online alternatives. “In the foreseeable future, while...
...Whether that's good business remains to be seen: No sooner were the shows announced in May than never-seen-it-before "Survivor" became the biggest hit of the year. For viewers, the retro slate's generally bad news, but there's some hope. Herewith, a 21st-century premiere-week survival guide...
Cornwell’s hallmarks are everywhere in this novella. For instance, Harvard is prominently featured. Characters meet at the Faculty Club—“a handsome Georgian Revival building with a grey slate roof”—and the Fogg Art Museum, where, in real life, Cornwell has helped bring paintings by the man she claims was Jack the Ripper. And of course, the token Harvard student answers a question with “unnecessary snottiness...
...Asia tsunami destroyed villages, towns and lives. But in calamity there is sometimes opportunity?a wiping of the slate that, for better or worse, allows people to start over. In the aftermath of the disaster, Tisna Nando, a 35-year-old environmentalist from Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, saw that kind of clean-slate opportunity. As an education-and-awareness manager at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), a U.K.-based environmental NGO, Nando has worked for the past two years to help the people of devastated Aceh province create a better future for themselves by learning to live in greater harmony...
...Tournament team.“Both of them played so well this weekend,” junior co-captain Laura Mahon said. “It was really great that they were leading and keeping everyone pumped up.”Having completed its non-conference slate, Harvard will enter the heart of its Ivy schedule this weekend when Penn and Princeton come to town.Though the Quakers have had an up-and-down preseason, the Tigers have won three tournaments and will provide a true test for the Crimson on Saturday afternoon.“Princeton tends to be good...