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...copying, which Barjatya calls "nearly 100% foolproof." The site streams some 90,000 gigabytes of content every month; after an April 1 relaunch, it will offer more than 1,000 films, as well as downloads for mobile phones. For advertisers, the new site will also offer the ability to target ads based on viewers' demographics and content preferences...
...Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. “It’s an experimental situation we’re trying out,” says Jeremy L. Gibson, associate director of athletics. “We tried to target times that were less utilized by others in a facility that has less use than others,” This new policy of women-only hours particularly benefits Muslim women, allowing them to exercise in a more comfortable environment. Ola Aljawhary ’09, chair of the Harvard Islamic Society’s Islamic Knowledge Committee...
...absence, policymakers have focused on that current measure of all things educational: student test scores. In districts across the country, administrators are devising systems that track student scores back to the teachers who taught them in an attempt to apportion credit and blame and, in some cases, target help to teachers who need it. Offering bonuses to teachers who raise student achievement, the theory goes, will improve the overall quality of instruction, retain those who get the job done and attract more highly qualified candidates to the profession-all while lifting those all-important test scores...
...swap the Mercedes for a new car and my carbon footprint will get bigger. "If you hardly drive it, that's a really good point," she says. "There are people like you, but hopefully not too many. People with very old, well-looked-after Mercedes are probably not the target of this, but we have to put the measures in somewhere...
...similar moments create the context that keeps the play from being one-dimensional.The play ultimately walks a fine line between satire and something more tragicomic. One feels that a send-up of Hollywood and its literary cannibalism can’t be the end goal of the play; the target feels too easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation is almost good enough to fool the audience when the content begins to become serious.This line of thinking makes the ending seem...