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...College announced plans for a $1 billion renovation of the 12 undergraduate Houses in response to long-lived concerns over decaying infrastructure in many of the buildings, which span in age from 38 to 112 years old. The 15 years of planned renovations are slated to start in 2011, but a number of key questions remain unanswered, including where students in Houses undergoing construction will be relocated and how the plans will fit with the University's now bleaker financial outlook...
...reminder of how quickly a hockey game can change from a back-and-forth battle to a blowout. With the team having already rallied twice to get within one goal of the Lakers, Simon Gysbers and Fred Cassiani beat freshman goalie Matt Hoyle in a 91-second span.“In general, our offense starts from our zone and if we can establish a defense mindset, the offense will come,” Biega said. “Because we’re lacking on defense, we didn’t execute the simple passes in our own zone...
...that led him to begin an affair with star Ingrid Bergman: "The making of Fleming's last picture, Joan of Arc, becomes one of those behind-the-scenes sagas far more fascinating than the finished film, like the productions of Cleopatra, Apocalypse Now or Heaven's Gate. It would span a decade and a half of creative flirtations, turbulent love affairs, and discordant ambitions ... Even its presentation of Ingrid Bergman as an apple-cheeked warrior-saint - the ultimate tomboy heroine - backfired shortly after the film's release, when the American public condemned her for deserting her husband ... and their daughter...
...Davis Center has assembled an impressive collection of Soviet nonconformist art. The first exhibit of its kind to be installed in the Davis Center, “The Art of Subversion” features 50 pieces, mostly lithographs and etchings on paper as well as photography and oils that span a 30-year period from the mid 1950s to 1980s. The exhibit contains works from the new Davis Center collection as well as pieces on loan from Rutgers University and from Dodge’s personal collection. “This is the first dive into the visual arts...
...shooting up again. This time, though, it does feel different. It seems as if Americans have made a real and fundamental commitment to consuming less energy. That is not so much out of idealism as it is the good side, for a change, of our short attention span. When the price of gasoline shot past $4 per gal., it was both shocking and reassuring. Economists had long wondered what price it would take to get our attention. This, at last, was it. Yet $4 gas turned out not to be the end of the world. Although it was devastating...