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...five-year run of Celine Dion's A New Day. That elephantine extravaganza, staged by ex-Cirque du Soleil director Franco Dragone, submerged the singer in gigantic sets and CGI effusions: rolling clouds, meteor showers, shooting stars. Midler jokes that she has come to "the only city that could teach Kraft about cheese" because of "the sh-tload of money they're payin' me." There's plenty of money lavished on the production too: $10 million (as she mentions three or four times during the evening), and it boasts some luscious videographic effects. Oh, and Midler does make an appearance...
...provide the promised help and simply add to one’s costs. Both professors said they are taking immediate steps to improve financial awareness. Tufano has started Doorways to Dreams, a non-for-profit that creates video games to educate youths about financial concepts. Lusardi plans to teach a class on basic economics and finance as part of a new Dartmouth financial literacy initiative. Both researchers are also currently working on a paper to expand on their findings in this study. “We want to raise awareness about this topic,” Lusardi said...
...It’s discouraging to some students, because you’re not used to devoting that much time to just one program,” says Mariah F. Peebles ’09, a co-coordinator of Peer Health Exchange (PHE), which trains undergraduates to teach health curriculums to schools lacking formal health education...
...requirements for PHE, she notes, include learning to teach a 50-minute workshop nearly word for word...
...students worry about which college will be closed next year for a $70 million face-lift. Of course, Harvard could afford a similar program given that its endowment is 50% larger than Yale’s, but doing so would remove the valuable life lesson Harvard is trying to teach it’s undergraduates: Large corporations that only seek to further their net value often overlook the status of life of those in their charge. Besides, the easy life is detrimental to the students—as witnessed by a typical Yalie who is weak and soft...