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...Nobody looks at each other, though all recognize that they are locked in a high-stakes battle for square inches. Yet a tentative order tempers the chaos: All at once, somebody searching for space covers the bottom third of another poster, obscuring the date and location of the Glassblowing Society??s first meeting. The wounded party shoots an angry glance at the offender. Perhaps the fight will break out into outright poster defacing, silent and malicious, or perhaps the infraction will be allowed to pass...
...same time, it contributes a new genre to their repertoire: the spy movie satire. Although the Coens’ past projects have ranged in type from screwball comedy to noir to westerns, often blurring all three, they have always achieved maximum success when dealing with people on society??s fringes. Their most interesting characters are social misfits like The Dude—the pot-smoking, White Russian-drinking hero of “The Big Lebowski”—rather than rich urbanites like Osbourne and Katie Cox. Joel and Ethan have a lot of love...
...burden for the entire country. Obesity cuts into the American labor force’s productivity—Californians with a BMI greater than 40 took twelve times as many days off as their thinner counterparts in 2005. It also creates a large economic burden on all of American society??a recent study demonstrated that almost 10 percent of all medical expenditures can be directly attributed to obesity. And in an era where military recruitment is suffering from two very real wars on the ground, it’s truly depressing to note that the leading cause...
...appointment of Jonathan Zittrain—who is currently a professor at the University of Oxford and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society??follows that of John G. Palfrey, Jr. '94, Zittrain's Berkman Center colleague who had previously been a clinical professor...
...what point do imbalances in access to money, media, and society??s administrative apparatuses constitute the censorship of dissent? Recent events at Harvard provide an exhaustive example...