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...could restrain the cheers of spectators. Yet we must allow ourselves to be swept away by something, or we shackle ourselves to the degrees of separation between pure enjoyment and irony. Anyone who feels even a modicum of outrage should make a personal commitment to lengthen our cultural attention span and let powerful performances speak for themselves. For there is an important difference between choosing how you want to experience an event and preventing yourself from experiencing it at all. Every now and then, a willing suspension of disbelief is, like chicken soup, good for the soul...
...hour Play Festival is a biannual tradition now in its 14th semester at Harvard. In the span of only a day, about 30 students write, rehearse, direct, and perform five short plays. Even more impressively, the fifth is often a musical with original songs...
...meal is part of a campus-wide “Earth Week,” a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, which started on April 22, 1970. Harvard’s Earth Week, which will actually span 10 days, started on April 14 and will include the first annual Harvard Green Carpet Awards on April 23, which will honor staff, students, and faculty who have made significant contributions to reducing the University’s greenhouse gas emissions. The celebration will culminate with tours of the new Harvard Garden near Lowell House on April 24. The garden...
Though the senior registered just one strikeout in that span, his teammates were able to catch or throw out any potential threat...
...using a social network of over 12,000 people during a span of 32 years, Christakis was able to analyze the impact of this network on the clustering of drinkers and non-drinkers and the subsequent consumption of alcohol. He also examined the nature of social ties, noting that close friends and family had a larger impact on drinking than neighbors or colleagues...