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Thanks for your encouraging article on Energy Secretary Steven Chu [Aug. 24]. Knowing that a man of his learning and talent is leading the Department of Energy gives me hope for the future. When major scientists like Chu tell us we are facing a global crisis--one that could be deadly to all life on earth--because of the damage we are doing to the environment, it is time to listen and act. Doug Bridges, COLUMBUS...
FlyBy did a lazy-Sunday lookover, and it appeared that about 30-40 percent of the chairs were full, and almost entirely by non-Harvard students. (We could tell because they were...
...could keep going with other thoughtful and substantiated arguments concerning the breakfast question. What about the athletes? I can tell you that I spend at least 20 minutes a day on the “five” setting on the treadmill, and it makes my metabolism hum (yes, ladies). Or consider the “varsity” athletes. Can these finely tuned Division I machines really be expected to trudge to Annenberg every day just to get enough calories to survive? What about Steve, the Winthrop employee who used to man the grill every morning...
...embassies moved into gaudy narco-mansions rented out by warlords loyal to President Hamid Karzai. For dining, you had a choice of Mexican, Balkan, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, American and Chinese restaurants. The Chinese places were often fronts for brothels, and off-limits to Afghans, but any Kabuli male would tell you feverishly which of these establishments were selling girls along with the noodles. (Will the U.S. settle for Karzai...
...only one without a degree—a music degree that is. Receiving none of the formal training of her band mates, she relies on them to translate the songs that are in her head. “In the practice room, the Harvard diploma doesn’t tell me what key it’s in,” the singer says.A lack of professional training was just one of the challenges that the hopeful musicians faced trying to launch their music careers. “We moved to New York and got a few day jobs...