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...festivities on Club duty, but were instead there as friends of the new aristocrat. “They are cool dudes,” Rennell said while dancing, turkey leg in hand, in a costume reminiscent of King Henry VIII. However, the fun atmosphere of the party seemed to sum up the club’s circus philosophy. “It’s about this,” Skinner says, gesturing at the gyrating crowd of people dressed in Viking costumes, togas, Shumag’s, Renaissance dresses, and stilt-walkers. Despite their name, the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defying Gravity and Harvard Norms | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...have left their record labels in favor of all-inclusive contracts with concert promoters such as LiveNation. These promoters purchase the rights to an artist’s entire profitable output­—CDs, tours, T-shirts, and even collectible bobblehead dolls—for one lump sum. Gawley predicts that record companies will ultimately embrace these so-called “360 deals” and will be best equipped for these contracts because of their experience in brand management. Friday’s talk was hosted by the Harvard Law School Recording Artists Project (RAP), which...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Record Label Exec Predicts Industry Trends | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...went out there, performed well, and did the things we needed to do to maintain our lead.”All five Crimson competitors finished in the top 15 and contributed to the victory, in a tournament where a team’s score each round is the sum of the scores of its top four players in that round. Junior Ali Bode shot three solid rounds of 79, 74, and 76, and sophomore Sarah Harvey (82-75-76-233) rebounded well from a tough opening round.Extraordinary depth was a characteristic unique to the Harvard squad, and something that...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes First Ivy Crown By Ten Strokes | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...schools, small class sizes, school choice busing, and free sports as examples of how “much of what we’re doing with the money is really good.”Fowler-Finn has also addressed concerns of a test-oriented approach by including a budget sum for “innovative curricula” in the 2008-2009 budget proposal, which was just approved unanimously by the school committee. “We’re trying to encourage principals to be creative, individualistic, doing things full of imagination, and looking for alternatives that excite students...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minding the Achievement Gap | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...equals an evolutionary ocean. Even the most liberated humans would hesitate to have sex in front of complete strangers. And bonobos aren't likely to harness fire or invent the wheel or the Internet soon. Still, for too long the study of nature has been the study of zero-sum savagery--a universal bloodlust that allows us to shrug at our own brutality, reckoning that mere animals like us can hardly be expected to do better. Discovering such close genetic cousins who behave themselves so well--even sometimes--ought to give us pause. There are already plenty of reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Refuge for Hippie Apes | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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