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Abrahams and Benefield face something of an uphill battle. Attendance at the museums has remained somewhat steady over the past five years. Though the annual attendance has increased by roughly three thousand visitors since 1999, the proportion of those visitors who are students has declined. In 1999, the percentage of total visitors who identified themselves as Harvard students was roughly 18 percent, while students made up only 15 percent of last year’s visitors...
...million more than Neverland. But Taylor Hackford’s film, despite Jamie Foxx’s soon-to-be-Oscar-winning performance, offers an easy way out. It mixes clichés of cultural nostalgia with the classic American tale of rags-to-riches. Comforting, perhaps, but somewhat trite in an age of wholesale corporate layoffs and a widening divide between bourgeois and blue-collar. If anything, the film offers a longing glimpse into a world we no longer possess: many have noted that in today’s record industry, Ray Charles would never have left the lounge...
...Arbiter of Truth (with a capital T), a drunken member of the varsity football team, told me so. A few weeks ago, I was walking from Quincy House with two of my blockmates when I spotted said football player with his girlfriend staggering along Plympton Street. It was still somewhat icy on the ground, and the inebriated lovers slipped, nearly falling...
Sullivan has lightened the load on his charges somewhat in anticipation of keeping the team fresh for its upcoming games...
...Dean of the Faculty, such an advocate would not participate in funding, salary, and tenure decisions and would be solely focused on the Faculty-administration relationship. Of course, such a proposal would require extensive input from both sides, especially in light of the response to Knowles’ somewhat similar, but last-minute proposal...